Interest of STI policies to influence the innovation behaviour of firms
has been increased considerably. This gives rise to the notion of behavioural
additionality, broadening traditional evaluation concepts of input and output
additionality. Though there is empirical work measuring behavioural
additionalities, we know little about what role distinct firm characteristics play
for their occurrence. The objective is to estimate how distinct firm
characteristics influence the realisation of behavioural additionalities. We use
survey data on 155 firms, considering the behavioural additionalities stimulated
by the Austrian R&D funding scheme in the field of intelligent transport
systems in 2006. We focus on three different forms of behavioural additionality
project additionality, scale additionality and cooperation additionality and
employ binary regression models to address this question. Results indicate that
R&D related firm characteristics significantly affect the realisation of
behavioural additionality. Firms with a high level of R&D resources are less
likely to substantiate behavioural additionalities, while small, young and
technologically specialised firms more likely realise behavioural additionalities.
From a policy perspective, this indicates that direct R&D promotion of firms
with high R&D resources may be misallocated, while attention of public
support should be shifted to smaller, technologically specialised firms with
lower R&D experience.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:5498 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Wanzenböck, Iris, Scherngell, Thomas, Fischer, Manfred M. |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Relation | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016649721200140X#, https://www.elsevier.com/, http://epub.wu.ac.at/5498/ |
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