Arbeitspapier

Research and innovation policies and productivity growth

We review the evidence on the impact of public intervention on private research and innovation, and how research and innovation and R&I policies affect growth in the applied macro models most commonly used in European Union policy analysis. The evidence suggests that R&I grants and R&I tax credits can have positive effects in terms of stimulating investment in innovation. In terms of the impact of public R&I interventions on economy-wide GDP growth and jobs, the available applied macro models predict positive effects over the long term. It therefore takes time before short-term negative effects associated with reallocations of high-skilled labour from other productive activities to generate the extra innovations, and the negative effects from displacing older, more labour-intensive production processes, are compensated for. To the question of whether R&I policies can serve to power growth, the answer can only be a timid yes at this stage. R&I policies certainly have the potential, but still too little is known of what drives their actual effects. More micro and macro evaluations are still needed.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bruegel Working Paper ; No. 08/2021

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Veugelers, Reinhilde
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bruegel
(wo)
Brussels
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Veugelers, Reinhilde
  • Bruegel

Entstanden

  • 2021

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