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The Impact of University Enterprise Incentive Program on the Performance and Technological Efforts of Brazilian Industrial Firms

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João Alberto De Negri (Institute for Applied Economics Research – IPEA.)
Mauro Borges Lemos (Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG.)
Fernanda De Negri (Institute for Applied Economics Research - IPEA.)

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This study is an unprecedented effort in Brazil to evaluate the effectiveness of public incentive programs to develop technological capacity of firms. There are currently no empirical evaluations that have explored the impacts of this type of program on the performance of the Brazilian industrial firms in greater depth, particularly for those beneficiaries of these programs. This study therefore evaluates the FNDCT’s impact, particularly its cooperative modality, which comprises a joint university-enterprise project for technological innovation. The results indicate that the FNDCT has positive impacts on private R&D expenditures of beneficiary firms. This rejects the hypothesis of crowding out and strengthens the hypothesis of the existence of crowding in between public and private funds. The results on the economic performance of beneficiary firms are, however, inconclusive.

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Paper provided by Inter-American Development Bank, Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) in its series OVE Working Papers with number 1306.

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H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
O32 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
O38 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Government Policy

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