政府科技补助对企业创新投入的门槛效应——基于科技型中小企业的经验研究

本文基于我国2009年-2013年112家科技型中小企业的面板数据,以资助强度作为门槛变量,实证检验政治关联、政府科技补助对科技型中小企业创新投入的作用效果。结果表明:(1)对于我国科技型中小企业而言,政府科技补助具有显著的激励效应,没有挤出效应;(2)政治关联程度对政府科技补助与科技型中小企业创新投入之间关系具有削弱作用,但不显著;(3)随着政府科技补助强度的增大,政府科技补助的激励效应却会不断降低。     

Estimating the causal effect of R&D subsidies in a pan-European program

We investigate the effect of Europe's largest multilateral subsidy program for R&D-performing small and medium-sized enterprises. The program applied a specific budget allocation rule, referred to as Virtual Common Pot (VCP), which is designed to avoid cross-subsidization between participating countries. This rule creates exogenous variation in funding status and allows us to identify the causal effect of public R&D grants on firm growth. In addition, we compare the program's effect under the VCP rule with the standard situation of a Real Common Pot (RCP), in which program authorities allocate a single budget according to uniform project evaluation criteria. Our estimates suggest that R&D grants had no average effect on job creation and sales growth, but treatment effects were heterogeneous and positive for high-quality projects. Under an RCP the program would have created 53% more jobs and 48% higher sales.     

Behavioural additionality of R&D subsidies: A learning perspective

The use of R&D grants as a policy instrument has been motivated by economic arguments of market failure. Neo-classical econometric studies have analysed the additionality of one Euro of subsidies on both the investments of companies in the R&D process and the output of that R&D process. More recently, behavioural additionality has been launched as a third form of additionality. In contrast to input and output additionality, behavioural additionality is related to changes in the processes that take place within the firm. In this paper, we analyse the determinants of the behavioural additionality of R&D grants. To explain the mechanism through which behavioural additionality is obtained, we use organizational learning theory as a guide to formulate our hypotheses. Hypotheses are tested using a telephone survey of 192 recipients of R&D grants provided by the IWT in Flanders in 2001–2004, matched to a sample of 84 firms that undertake innovation activities but which had never had a grant bid accepted. We find that congenital learning and interorganizational learning lead to increased behavioural additionality. However, these learning effects decrease with the number of subsidized projects that are undertaken by the company.     

政府补贴对农业企业R&D投资行为的影响研究

政府创新补贴是一国扶持农业企业技术创新的重要政策工具,政策目标是促进农业企业的R&D投入杠杆效应而非形成补贴依赖,但补贴绩效如何尚缺乏系统研究。本文利用手工方式从涉农上市企业公开披露信息整理出的2012-2014年三年样本数据,构建联立方程模型实证分析了政府补贴对农业企业R&D投资的影响效应及其差异性。研究结果发现,政府补贴对涉农企业R&D投入的激励效应显著,但行业之间存在较大差异;涉农企业的绩效增长短期对主营业务R&D投入会发生杠杆效应,但长期来看效应微弱,R&D投资行为具有一定的补贴依赖倾向。此外,涉农上市企业内部治理与经营水平也是影响政府补贴对R&D创新投入效率的重要因素。最后,本文从政府补贴的资助对象、方式和监管补贴用途等方面提出了相应的政策建议。     

R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea

This paper investigates the extent to which a regulatory environment for R&D subsidies shapes the magnitude and direction of R&D subsidies set by a government and consequent innovation paths. When the WTO adopted a permissive regulatory environment, we find that the Korean government increased R&D subsidies significantly (89.21%) and selectively so for firms and industries with higher returns. Recipient firms conducted less basic research and more development research. Improvements in innovations were mostly incremental and minor. However, such changes did not persist once the WTO switched to a restrictive regulatory environment. Our findings show that the regulatory environment imposed by the WTO largely affects allocation of R&D subsidies and suggest that a permissive regulatory environment may not necessarily maximize the potential for breakthrough innovations.     

R&D成本内生化及政府补贴政策效应研究——基于新经济地理框架

在政府对知识密集型产业补贴的整体规模不断放大的背景下,针对如何避免投资不足、投资过度等现象发生提供了完整的理论解答。从政府的财政政策角度出发,将新经济地理理论与经济增长理论结合,引入政府针对资本密集型和知识密集型产业的税收及补贴政策,基于垄断竞争一般均衡框架推导出财政政策、RD投资水平、企业分布、劳动者收入、经济增长率等一系列均衡,从理论上研究政府政策对企业的空间集聚程度、劳动力市场结构、消费者收入差异、知识密集型产业研发水平等方面的作用和影响。     

中国政府R&D资助空间自相关特征研究

本文采用中国大陆分省区面板数据,利用空间计量经济学方法,并基于区域创新环境的角度,实证考察了我国政府RD资助的空间自相关特征及其影响因素。研究发现,考察期内我国政府RD资助在空间上呈现较强的空间自相关性;区域创新环境变量中,区域基础设施环境、金融环境、人力资本环境、制度环境及对外开放水平对政府RD资助具有显著的正向拉动效应,而经济发展环境的影响并不显著。本文结论为我国政府科技资助政策的科学制定提供参考。     

战略性新兴产业研发投入、政府补助与企业价值

理论研究表明企业研发投入具有价值相关性,政府补助对企业研发投入与企业价值的关系具有调节作用。以2010—2014年278家战略性新兴产业上市公司为研究对象,利用固定效应面板模型实证研究发现:企业研发投入会显著降低企业当期财务绩效和市场价值,提高企业滞后两期的财务绩效以及滞后三期的企业市场价值;滞后一期的政府补助与企业的财务绩效与市场价值显著负相关,但对企业财务绩效的创造具有增量解释作用。     

The effectiveness of subsidies revisited: Accounting for wage and employment effects in business R&D

The present paper investigates the effectiveness of public subsidies on business enterprise research in a panel of OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by explicitly distinguishing between the effects of a subsidy on R&D employment and expenditure, thereby accounting for a potential increase in scientists’ wages. We employ instrumental variable regressions to address endogeneity problems of the subsidization. The results indicate that subsidies are effective in generating additional research expenditure. Expenditure for business research increases by roughly 20% more than employment. We take this as evidence that subsidies may raise scientists’ wages given standard production functions.     

专利保护和加计扣除政策能够促进私人农业技术创新么？

摘要：专利保护和加计扣除政策是政府保护和激励私人技术创新的重要手段。本文利用2005-2015年间77家农业上市公司公开数据，研究了专利保护和加计扣除政策对私人农业研发投入与研发投入强度的影响。结果表明，专利保护政策并未促进私人农业研发投入或者提高私人研发投入强度，而加计扣除政策则显著提高了私人的研发投入和研发投入强度。通过设置专利保护和加计扣除政策的交互项，发现专利保护的增强削弱了加计扣除政策的溢入效应。本文结论验证了已有的部分研究结论，建议进一步完善专利保护政策，加强加计扣除政策的实施广度和强度，推动国家创新体系建设。     

A comparative evaluation of regional subsidies for collaborative and individual R&D in small and medium-sized enterprises

We analyse whether public subsidies supporting collaborative research and development (R&D) projects in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are able to encourage persistent R&D investment and interorganisational networking more than subsidies supporting individual R&D projects. Adopting a counterfactual approach to policy evaluation, we compare subsidies for collaborative R&D and for individual R&D implemented in the same Italian region in the same period. Our findings suggest that, once public support is no longer available, the two subsidies have different effects on different types of SMEs. If the policymakers’ objective is to increase the number of R&D-performing SMEs over time, they should provide subsidies for collaborative R&D to firms with modest R&D experience. If their objective is to increase the amount of spontaneous R&D investment over time, they should target SMEs with some prior R&D experience, using either subsidy. Finally, if their objective is to induce SMEs to network with external organisations, subsidies for collaborative R&D projects should be preferred to subsidies for individual R&D projects.     

Selective subsidies,entrepreneurial founders' human capital,and access to R&D alliances

We investigate if and to what extent the receipt of a “selective” subsidy – a public subsidy awarded through a competitive procedure – helps new technology-based firms (NTBFs) to access R&D alliances. In particular, we theoretically enquire and empirically analyze which founding team-level characteristics allow NTBFs to: i) get a selective subsidy; and ii) access an R&D alliance with another firm or a public research organization/university, once the subsidy is awarded. We use a sample of 902 NTBFs that operate in Italy, where industrial policy has never had an explicit and exclusive mandate neither for targeting NTBFs nor for easing their access to R&D networks. By means of several identification strategies and estimation methods, our results point to the relevance of selective subsidies in facilitating NTBFs to enter R&D alliances, independently from the objective of the policy measure. Second, founders’ technical education figures as a key determinant to get the first selective subsidy. Finally, founders’ previous industry-specific work experience allows NTBFs to better exploit the selective subsidy, by positively moderating the impact of the subsidy on the likelihood to establish a corporate R&D alliance.     

The interaction between public and private R&D expenditure and national productivity

Starting from the epistemological position of the positive interaction between public and private R&D expenditures at country level for maintaining productivity growth, the purpose of this paper is to provide empiricist–positivist arguments of this stance in order to design R&D policy that supports national competitiveness in fast-changing and turbulent markets     

R&D subsidies & external collaborative breadth: Differential gains and the role of collaboration experience

External collaboration breadth is important for firms to acquire the knowledge needed to innovate. In this paper, we combine cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the Spanish Panel of Technological Innovation Survey (PITEC) to examine the indirect impact of R&D subsidies on firm external collaboration breadth. We contribute to understanding of the indirect impacts of R&D subsidies by first providing strong evidence of an economically significant average positive impact of R&D subsidies on firm external collaboration breadth. Second, our results advance understanding of the differential impacts of R&D subsidies by revealing the vast heterogeneity of the impact at the firm level, where approximately only half of treated firms experience a positive collaboration impact from R&D subsidies, while the remainder experience no impact or a negative effect. Finally, we advance understanding of the characteristics explaining the differential impact of R&D subsidies on external collaboration breadth by utilising the organisational learning literature to demonstrate the important role of firm collaboration experience.     

政府补贴对纺织企业研发投入的影响

本文基于资源基础理论、信号传递理论及制度观等,以我国纺织行业上市公司为研究样本,研究政府补贴对纺织企业研发投入的影响,并分析地区知识产权保护水平与企业所有权性质的调节作用。研究发现:政府补贴在一定界限内会促进研发投入增加,超过一定界限时会产生挤出效应,政府补贴与研发投入之间呈倒U形关系;企业所有权性质与地区知识产权保护水平都有显著调节效应,政府补贴发挥的激励作用在民营企业内更强,在地区知识产权保护水平较高的地方也较强;联合调节作用表现为:当地区知识产权保护水平较高时,政府补贴对研发投入的影响会因为企业所有权性质不同而有较大差异,且在民营企业内促进作用更显著,反之,政府补贴对研发投入的影响程度在国有和民营企业中差异不明显;政府补贴与企业研发投入之间的关系在纺织业、纺织服装业、化纤制造业3个子行业中有区别,政府研发补贴对化纤制造业研发投入激励作用最大,其次是纺织服装业,而纺织业中则不显著。     

加计扣除政策、研发操纵与民营企业自主创新

基于2008-2017年中国A股民营上市公司的创新数据,从研发操纵视角,实证检验了加计扣除政策对民营企业自主创新的影响。实证结果表明：（1）加计扣除政策激励了民营企业自主创新,而研发操纵抑制这种激励效果;（2）随着加计扣除政策2013年和2015年的两次修改,民营企业的研发操纵行为得到一定治理;（3）研发操纵在盈利、非家族、非高新技术及税收监管弱的民营企业中更显著。本研究不仅为税收政策引发的激励扭曲效应提供微观证据,还为完善加计扣除政策提供建议。     

How to allocate R&D (and other) subsidies: An experimentally tested policy recommendation

This paper evaluates the typically applied rules for awarding R&D subsidies. We identify two sources of inefficiency: the selection based on a ranking of individual projects, rather than complete allocations, and the failure to induce competition among applicants in order to extract and use information about the necessary funding. In order to correct these inefficiencies we propose mechanisms that include some form of an auction in which applicants bid for subsidies. Our proposals are tested in a simulation and in controlled lab experiments. The results suggest that adopting our proposals may considerably improve the allocation.     

Tax incentives for R&D: a critical evaluation

A number of policy proposals have recently been presented that seek to address the problem of declining productivity growth. Many of these are aimed at encouraging private R&D spending through tax incentives. This paper first reviews some of these proposals, then evaluates tax incentives per se as a policy tool for encouraging R&D growth, and finally offers suggestions for redesigning R&D related tax incentive policies.     

R&D Subsidies as Dual Signals in Technological Collaborations

We investigate the influence of public R&D subsidies on a firm’s likelihood to form technological collaborations. Using signaling theory, we conceptualize the award of a subsidy as a pointing signal (i.e., indicating a quality attribute that distinguishes the signaler from its competitors), and the monetary amount raised through a subsidy as an activating signal (i.e., activating the quality attribute of the signaler). Drawing on the attention-based view, we investigate whether the relative salience of these signals varies between two types of signal receivers: academic and corporate partners. Using a panel sample of Spanish manufacturing firms, our results indicate that the two types of receivers attend to the two signals differently: while academic partners attend to pointing signals only (sent by the award of a selective subsidy), corporate partners react to the richer information that activating signals provide (sent by the monetary value of both selective and automatic subsidies). Our results are stronger for SMEs vis-à-vis large firms, and hold after controlling for endogeneity, selection bias, simultaneity, attrition, inter-temporal patterns in technological collaborations, and the substantive effects of subsidies. The theorized and tested dual nature of subsidy-enabled signals and their different salience to distinct partner types hold interesting implications for research on alliances, innovation policy, and signals.     

跨国公司对华R＆D投资及中国R＆D策略分析

伴随着经济全球化,特别是中国加入WTO后,许多世界知名跨国公司纷纷将其研发中心迁至中国。在这样的背景下,中国一方面要加强国内R＆D储存,另一方面应积极吸纳跨国公司R＆D溢出,从而更好地发展中国经济。