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摘要
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%26D 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%26D related firm characteristics significantly affect the realisation of behavioural additionality. R%26D intensive firms are less likely to substantiate behavioural additionalities, while small, young and technologically specialised firms more likely realise behavioural additionalities. From a policy perspective, it may be concluded that direct R%26D promotion of firms with a high R%26D intensity may be misallocated. Attention of public support should be shifted to smaller, technologically specialised firms with lower R%26D experience. The findings deliver important insights into interactions of public R%26D support and R%26D behaviour of firms operating in the Austrian transport sector, bearing significant implications for future policy designs.
- 出版日期2013-3
