More subsidies, more innovation? Evaluating whether a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation

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dc.contributor.authorMulligan, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorLenihan, Helena
dc.contributor.authorDoran, Justin
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-20T05:49:02Z
dc.date.available2019-11-20T05:49:02Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-25
dc.description.abstractPolicy-makers at regional, national and European Union (EU) levels of governance use a variety of subsidy programmes to stimulate firm-level innovation. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates three important issues that have not received sufficient attention in the literature: (1) whether evaluating the impact of subsidies from each individual source is biased by ignoring firms that receive a mix of subsidies from different sources at the same point in time; (2) whether receiving a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation; and (3) if effective, whether subsidy mix stimulates forms of innovation with higher private or social returns. The findings demonstrate that ignoring subsidy mix significantly biases evaluations of subsidies from individual sources. Moreover, subsidy mix can be a highly effective means of stimulating forms of firm-level innovation with the highest social returns, precisely where market and systemic failures are most acute.en
dc.description.sponsorshipGOIPG/2015/2640en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMulligan, K., Lenihan, H. and Doran, J., 2019. More subsidies, more innovation? Evaluating whether a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 6(1), (8pp). DOI:10.1080/21681376.2019.1580608en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/21681376.2019.1580608en
dc.identifier.eissn2168-1376
dc.identifier.endpage138en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleRegional Studies, Regional Scienceen
dc.identifier.startpage130en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9141
dc.identifier.volume6en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681376.2019.1580608
dc.rights© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Groupen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectFirm-level innovationen
dc.subjectPolicy evaluationen
dc.subjectSubsidiesen
dc.subjectPolicy mixen
dc.titleMore subsidies, more innovation? Evaluating whether a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovationen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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