What Shapes Local Innovation Policies? Empirical Evidence from Japanese Cities

Hiroyuki Okamuro and Junichi Nishimura
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Junichi Nishimura: Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University, Mejiro 1-5-1, Toshima, Tokyo 171-0031, Japan

Administrative Sciences, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: Increasing attention has been paid to regional innovation systems. However, previous studies have so far only focused on (the regional impact of) national policies or specific regions. Despite increasing attention to regional and local innovation policies, no studies have been carried out to date on the factors of implementation and design of local research and development (R&D) subsidy programs at the city level. Our research fills this gap by using information on R&D subsidy programs from local authorities in Japan collected via websites and our original survey. Thus, our research aims at empirically investigating the determinants of both implementation and design of local R&D subsidy programs at the city level (length and upper limit of subsidies, and flexibility of subsidy conditions) considering both demand- and supply-side factors. We employ probit models for basic empirical estimations and provide some robustness checks. The empirical results suggest that, after controlling for city type and population size, supply-side factors including local government conditions significantly affect the implementation of public R&D subsidy programs. In contrast, we find that demand-side factors matter more for the design of subsidy programs than supply-side factors.

Keywords: innovation policy; local authority; R&D subsidy; policy design; city; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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