The additionality effects of R&D tax credits across sectors: A cross-country microeconometric analysis

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Fulvio Castellacci, Roberto Fontana, Franco Malerba and Andrea Vezzulli (andrea.vezzulli@gmail.com)
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Franco Malerba: Bocconi University

No 20150424, Working Papers on Innovation Studies from Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo

Abstract: Do the additionality effects of R&D tax credits vary across sectors? The paper presents a microeconometric analysis of this question for three countries: Norway, Italy and France. We use a panel of firm-level data from three waves of the Innovation Surveys carried out in these countries, referring to the years 2004, 2006 and 2008 respectively. The study estimates input and output additionality effects of R&D tax credits in each of these economies, and it investigates how these effects differ across sectors characterized by different R&D orientation and competition conditions. The results point out that firms in industries with high R&D orientation and in sectors with high market concentration are on average more responsive to fiscal incentives to R&D.

Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2015-04
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