Evaluating the impact of R&D tax credits on innovation: A microeconometric study on Canadian firms

Dirk Czarnitzki, Petr Hanel () and Julio Miguel Rosa

Research Policy, 2011, vol. 40, issue 2, 217-229

Abstract: This study examines the effect of R&D tax credits on innovation activities of Canadian manufacturing firms. Over the 1997-1999 period the Federal and Provincial R&D tax credit programs were used by more than one third of all manufacturing firms and by close to two thirds of firms in high-technology sectors. We investigate the average effect of R&D tax credits on a series of innovation indicators such as: number of new products, sales with new products, originality of innovation, etc. using a non-parametric matching approach. Compared to a hypothetical situation in the absence of R&D tax credits, recipients of tax credits show significantly better scores on most but not all performance indicators. We therefore conclude that tax credits lead to additional innovation output.

Keywords: R&D; Innovation; Public; subsidies; Tax; credit; Policy; evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Working Paper: Evaluating the Impact of R&D Tax Credits on Innovation: A Microeconometric Study on Canadian Firms (2005)
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