4 Z3 4 Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI ISI-Schriftenreihe »Innovationspotenziale« Marianne Kulicke, Carsten Becker, Herbert Berteit, Miriam Hufnagl, Tim Grebe, Matthias Kirbach, Tasso Brandt, Thorsten Lübbers Evaluierung des Programmstarts und der...

Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering ‘breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...

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...