Public support to firm-level innovation: an evaluation of the FONTAR program

This paper studies the impact of non-refundable grants (NRG) of the Argentinean Technological Fund (FONTAR) on firms’ innovative efforts and performance. We use a panel database of 954 firms that applied for public support to innovate during the period 2007-2013. Using a difference-in-differences ap...

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Autores principales: Pereira, Mariano, Martínez Correa, Julián, Scattolo, Gabriel
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
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Ciencias Económicas
Innovation
Impact evaluation
Argentina
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/121593
https://estudiosdeeconomia.uchile.cl/index.php/EDE/article/view/51350
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Innovation
Impact evaluation
Argentina
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Innovation
Impact evaluation
Argentina
Pereira, Mariano
Martínez Correa, Julián
Scattolo, Gabriel
Public support to firm-level innovation: an evaluation of the FONTAR program
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Innovation
Impact evaluation
Argentina
description This paper studies the impact of non-refundable grants (NRG) of the Argentinean Technological Fund (FONTAR) on firms’ innovative efforts and performance. We use a panel database of 954 firms that applied for public support to innovate during the period 2007-2013. Using a difference-in-differences approach, our results show that the NRG have a positive effect on firms’ innovative intensity, considering both the innovation activities to sales ratio and R&D to sales ratio. These remain robust to alternative definitions of control group and the outcome variable. Analysis of heterogeneous effects reveals that the impact was exclusively concentrated on small and young firms.
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author Pereira, Mariano
Martínez Correa, Julián
Scattolo, Gabriel
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Martínez Correa, Julián
Scattolo, Gabriel
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title Public support to firm-level innovation: an evaluation of the FONTAR program
title_short Public support to firm-level innovation: an evaluation of the FONTAR program
title_full Public support to firm-level innovation: an evaluation of the FONTAR program
title_fullStr Public support to firm-level innovation: an evaluation of the FONTAR program
title_full_unstemmed Public support to firm-level innovation: an evaluation of the FONTAR program
title_sort public support to firm-level innovation: an evaluation of the fontar program
publishDate 2018
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/121593
https://estudiosdeeconomia.uchile.cl/index.php/EDE/article/view/51350
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