Public Support to Firm-Level Innovation : An Evaluation of the FONTAR Program

This paper studies the impact of non-refundable grants (NRG) of the Argentinean Technological Fund (FONTAR) on firms' innovative efforts and performance. We use a panel database of 954 firms that applied for public support to innovate during the period 2007-2013. Using a difference-in-differences approach, our results show that the NRG have a positive effect on firms' innovative intensity, considering both the innovation activities to sales ratio and R&D to sales ratio. These remain robust to alternative definitions of control group and the outcome variable. Analysis of heterogeneous effects reveals that the impact was exclusively concentrated on small and young firms

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Year of publication:	2019
Authors:	Pereira, Mariano
Other Persons:	Martinez Correa, Julián (contributor) ; Scattolo, Gabriel (contributor)
Publisher:	[2019]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Innovation \| Technologiepolitik \| Technology policy \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Bewertung \| Evaluation \| Subvention \| Subsidy \| Forschungsfinanzierung \| Research funding \| Industrieforschung \| Industrial research

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (20 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Estudios de Economía. Vol. 45 - Nº 2, Págs. 251-269, Diciembre 2018 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 1, 2018 erstellt
Classification:	O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D ; C23 - Models with Panel Data
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10012888777