Public Support of Innovative Activity in Small and Large Firms in Mexico

Maribel Guerrero () and Albert Link
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Maribel Guerrero: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics

No 21-4, UNCG Economics Working Papers from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics

Abstract: The National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT) was established in 1970 by the Mexican government. CONACYT was formed to promote the scientific development and technological modernization of Mexico through developing high-level human resources, encouraging research projects, and disseminating scientific/technological information. In 2009, CONACYT launched the Innovation Stimulus Program (PEI) to foster enterprises’ innovation activities and to encourage collaboration on innovation activities among firms and between firms and public research institutes and higher education institutions. Based on an analysis of project data from the PEI program over the years 2009 through 2014 we found that large firms are more innovative than small firms. And, firms that are more innovative are those that had prior funded research, collaborated with universities in the funded research project, added new employees during the research project, and faced larger markets for their innovations.

Keywords: Public program evaluation; innovation; R&D; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H32 O25 O31 O38 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2021-05-19
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