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Do Selective Industrial Policies Cause Growth? – Experiences from Sweden

Sammanfattning

Questions regarding economic growth are at the top of the economic and political agenda in Sweden today. This report provides an analysis of how selective policies supporting innovation and entrepreneurship have been implemented and their impact on firm performance, growth and competitiveness.

The report is edited by Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall and Enrico Deiaco, Director of innovation and global meeting places at Growth Analysis (Tillväxtanalys), and is largely based on ”Tillväxt genom stöd – en bok om statligt stöd till näringslivet” (Tillväxtfakta 2015).

Gustavsson Tingvall, P. & Deiaco, E. (red.) (2015). Do Selective Industrial Policies Cause Growth? – Experiences from Sweden. Rapport 2015:07. Tillväxtanalys.

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Författare: Gustavsson Tingvall, P. & Deiaco, E.
Publiceringsår: 2015
Publicerat i: Tillväxtanalys, Tillväxt genom stöd – en bok om statligt stöd till näringslivet

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Hur påverkar skatt på förvärvsinkomster svensk innovationskraft?

Ejermo, O., Halvarsson, D., & Hansson, Å.

Publiceringsår

2025

Publicerat i

Tillväxtanalys.

Sammanfattning

Rapporten analyserar hur beskattningen av förvärvsinkomster påverkar Sveriges innovationsförmåga. Fokus ligger på hur marginalskatter och skattesystemets utformning påverkar humankapital, entreprenörskap och incitament till kunskapsintensivt arbete. Resultaten visar att höga skatter på arbetsinkomster riskerar att dämpa innovation genom minskad rörlighet, svagare incitament för utbildning och svårigheter att attrahera och behålla högkvalificerad arbetskraft. Rapporten diskuterar därmed skattepolitikens betydelse för långsiktig produktivitet och ekonomisk tillväxt.

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.

The book can be downloaded here for free.

Third-Generation Innovation Policy: System Transformation or Reinforcing Business as Usual?

Bergkvist, J. E., Moodysson, J., & Sandström, C.

Publiceringsår

2022

Publicerat i

Questioning the Entrepreneurial State, 201.

Sammanfattning

There has been a shift in innovation policy in recent years toward more focus on systemic transformation and changed directionality. In this chapter, we describe a collection of challenges that such policies need to address. Based on a review of dominant frameworks regarding socio-technical transitions, we compare these theories with examples of innovation policy in different countries. Systemic transformation across an economy usually requires a process of creative destruction in which new competencies may be required, actors need to be connected in novel ways, and institutions may need to be changed. Our empirical illustrations show that support programs and initiatives across Europe do not always seem to result in such a process, as they include mechanisms favoring large, established firms and universities. These actors have often fine-tuned their activities and capabilities to the existing order, and therefore have few incentives to engage in renewal. As the incumbent actors also control superior financial and relational resources, there is a risk that they captivate innovation policies and thus reinforce established structures rather than contributing to systemic transformation.