Innovative Capability and Financing Constraints for Innovation: More Money, More Innovation?

Hanna Hottenrott and Bettina Peters ()

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, vol. 94, issue 4, 1126-1142

Abstract: This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of an ideal test (Hall, 2008). Firms were offered a hypothetical payment and asked to choose between alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to firms' innovative capability. Econometric results show that financial constraints do not depend on the availability of internal funds per se but that they are driven by innovative capability. © 2012 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Keywords: innovation; financing constraints; innovative capability; multivariate probit models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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