Arbeitspapier

Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation

In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government support schemes. We analyze the effects of such policies to subsidize small businesses in a setting where both the risk-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale to an incumbent firm) are endogenous. We show that government programs to support small businesses foster market entry by entrepreneurs but, at the same time, give an incentive to choose low risk projects, due to the existence of limited loss offset provisions. This points to a basic trade-off be- tween the goals of raising competition in technology-intensive markets and the desire of governments to foster risky `breakthrough' innovations.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Munich Discussion Paper ; No. 2011-10

Classification
Wirtschaft
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
New Firms; Startups
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Subject
business taxation
innovation
market entry
Mittelstandspolitik
KMU
Innovation
Unternehmensbesteuerung
Steuervergünstigung
Markteintritt
Innovationspolitik
Innovationswettbewerb
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Haufler, Andreas
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan
Persson, Lars
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
(where)
München
(when)
2011

DOI
doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.12245
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-12245-5
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Haufler, Andreas
  • Norbäck, Pehr-Johan
  • Persson, Lars
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät

Time of origin

  • 2011

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