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Estimating the Benefits of Targeted R&D Subsidies

Tuomas Takalo¹; Tanja Tanayama²; Otto Toivanen³

¹ Bank of Finland · ² Finnish National Agency for Education · ³ KU Leuven

We study the expected welfare effects of targeted R&D subsidies using project-level data from Finland. We model the application and R&D investment decisions of firms and the subsidy-granting decision of the public agency in charge of the program. Our model and institutional environment allow us to identify different benefits and costs of the R&D subsidy program. We find that expected effects of subsidies are very heterogeneous and estimated application costs low on average. The social rate of return on targeted subsidies is 30% to 50%, but spillover effects of subsidies are smaller than effects on firm profits.

DOI

10.1162/rest_a_00280

Volume

95 (1)

Pages

255-272

Language

en

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