PublikationRapporter

Var gör innovationsstöd mest nytta?

Sammanfattning

Rapporten är en effektutvärdering av “VINN NU och Forska & Väx” som administreras av Sveriges innovationsmyndighet, Vinnova. I rapporten, som är författad av Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall med understöd av Josefin Videnord, undersöks dessutom om effekten av dessa program skiljer sig åt mellan regioner. Rapporten ger även rekommendationer om hur stöden kan fördelas för att bättre generera tillväxt.

Gustavsson Tingvall, P. (2015). Var gör innovationsstöd mest nytta? Stora skillnader i effekt mellan olika regioner. PM 2015:17. Tillväxtanalys.

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Bokkapitel

Do Targeted R&D Grants toward SMEs Increase Employment and Demand for High Human Capital Workers?

Daunfeldt, S. O., Halvarsson, D., Tingvall, P. G., & McKelvie, A.

Publiceringsår

2022

Publicerat i

Springer.

Sammanfattning

Most previous studies on the employment effects of government R&D grants targeting SMEs are characterized by data-, measurement-, and selection problems, making it difficult to construct a relevant control group of firms that did not receive an R&D grant. We investigate the effects on employment and firm-level demand for high human capital workers of two Swedish programs targeted toward growth-oriented SMEs using Coarsened Exact Matching. Our most striking result is the absence of any statistically significant effects. We find no robust evidence that the targeted R&D grant programs had any positive and statistically significant effects on the number of employees recruited into these SMEs, or that the grants are associated with an increase in the demand for high human capital workers. The lack of statistically significant findings is troublesome considering that government support programs require a positive impact to cover the administrative costs associated with these programs.

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Working paper

Ratio Working Paper No. 329: IPRs and Appropriability in the Digital Era: Evidence from the Swedish Video (Computer) Games Industry

Long, V.

Publiceringsår

2019

Publicerat i

Ratio Working Paper

Sammanfattning

This study contributes to a meso (industry)-level understanding of the changing complexity of the general appropriability conditions in the digital era on the one hand, and the role of IPRs in that (appropriability) on the other hand, through a study of an industry sector – the Swedish video (computer) games industry – where digital distribution prevails and IPRs are important (copyrights in derivative works; trademarks in game titles).Combining analyses on EPO patent data, EUIPO trademark data, firm-level interviews and survey data, this study firstly identifies a paradoxical development: on the one hand, there is a clear digital take-off of IPRs’ propensity, namely firms tend to be more active in registering trademarks and valuing their copyrights (firm size and technological platform matter though). On the other hand, the digital traits – digitally induced high levels of interactivities (between supply and demand) and the digital division of a product (in provisions) – provide strong protections (to the innovation) from a technical standpoint, which offsets the importance of IPRs. Then what are IPRs for, in a technologically tight appropriability regime? This study further identifies that the increase of the importance of IPRs is not derived from IPRs’ protection function, but from their signalling function. In the digital era, new products easily disappear in the digital crowd, and IPRs can act as an important remedy by signalling the origin and quality of products as well as new innovations. This study provides a snapshot of the digital complexity pertinent to the issue of appropriability.

Artikel (med peer review)

Subsidy Entrepreneurs: An Inquiry into firms seeking public grants

Halvarsson, D, Gustafsson, A. & Gustavsson Tingvall, P.

Publiceringsår

2020

Publicerat i

Journal of Industry Competition and Trade

Sammanfattning

This paper studies the incentives and characteristics of firms that apply for, and eventually receive, one or multiple governmental grants intended to stimulate innovation and growth. The analysis departs from a contest model in which entrepreneurs are free to allocate their effort between production and seeking grants. The results suggest that highly productive entrepreneurs abstain from seeking grants, moderately productive firms allocate a share of their effort to grant seeking, and low-productivity firms allocate most resources to seeking grants. Due to their efforts in seeking grants, these low-productive subsidy entrepreneurs also have a relatively high probability of receiving the grants. Using comprehensive data over grants from the three largest grant-distributing agencies in Sweden, we find concordant evidence of a negative relation between the probability of receiving a grant and firm productivity. As we go from single- to multiple-grant-supported firms, this negative relation becomes more pronounced.

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