Financial Constraints and Other Obstacles: Are they a Threat to Innovation Activity?
Pierre Mohnen, Franz Palm, Sybrand Schim van der Loeff & Amaresh Tiwari
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In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles
to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the
CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these
obstacles on the firms' decision to abandon, prematurely stop, seriously
slow down, or not to start an innovative project. These results are
compared with those from other studies in the Netherlands and other
countries. We end with a discussion of policy measures that have been
taken to overcome, or at least attenuate these obstacles, such as R&D
tax incentives, venture capital financing and policy mix pakages.
Keywords: Financial constraints, innovation, innovation policy
JEL codes: O38
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
ISSN 1871-9872