Undeterred and (somewhat) successful – How Canadian firms mitigate innovation barriers to remain innovative ?

Catherine Beaudry and Charles Bérubé

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Abstract: This paper disentangles the actions that firms took to mitigate financial and nonfinancial innovation barriers and offers a first assessment of the role of government support programs for innovation related activities in relation with these perceived innovation obstacles. Our results show that firms that face financial constraints cannot completely overcome these innovation barriers. When not financially constrained however, firms that choose to be undeterred by the obstacles they face and takes successful measures or use government programs are either equally or more innovative than firms that do not face such innovation obstacles. Firms that have used government assistance programs have a greater propensity to innovate then those that did not use any government support. Ce document distingue les mesures prises par les entreprises pour atténuer les obstacles financiers et non financiers à l'innovation et propose une première évaluation du rôle des programmes de soutien public aux activités liées à l'innovation en relation avec ces obstacles perçus à l'innovation. Nos résultats montrent que les entreprises confrontées à des contraintes financières ne peuvent pas surmonter complètement ces obstacles à l'innovation. Toutefois, lorsqu'elles ne sont pas confrontées à des contraintes financières, les entreprises qui choisissent de ne pas se laisser décourager par les obstacles auxquels elles sont confrontées et qui prennent des mesures efficaces ou utilisent des programmes gouvernementaux sont tout aussi innovantes, voire plus, que les entreprises qui ne sont pas confrontées à de tels obstacles à l'innovation. Les entreprises qui ont eu recours à des programmes d'aide publique ont une plus grande propension à innover que celles qui n'ont bénéficié d'aucune aide publique.

Keywords: Obstacles to innovation; government incentives; innovation performance; mitigating innovation barriers; Obstacles à l'innovation; incitations gouvernementales; performance de l'innovation; atténuation des obstacles à l'innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L6 O32 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-03-05
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