Public support to innovation: impact on technological efforts in Argentine manufacturing firms

Obstáculos del sector manufacturero ecuatoriano y argentino: evidencia empírica desde las empresas innovadoras

“…Dentro de los factores internos que obstaculizan la innovación, se encuentran los agrupados en el conocimiento. Un nivel de educación inadecuado en el capital humano es un obstáculo para la innovación (Botric y Božić, 2018;Petelski, Milesi y Verre, 2019). Otro argumento señala que las empresas admiten poseer un equipo humano bien cualificado, pero limitado para acometer procesos de innovación (Iglesias-Sánchez, Jambrino-Maldonado y De las Heras-Pedrosa, 2017).…”

“…Así también los obstáculos institucionales reducen la innovación (Lachman y López, 2019). Por otra parte, Petelski et al (2019) señalan que el principal obstáculo de las actividades de innovación en las empresas manufactureras argentinas es la falta de personal calificado. También, el Foro Económico Mundial (WEF, 2016) señala que los factores más sobresalientes que dificultan los negocios son la inflación, los impuestos, el acceso al financiamiento, la corrupción, la burocracia ineficiente del gobierno, la inestabilidad política, entre otros.…”

Impact of the funding structure on R&D in cases of European Union and Russian Federation

“…In contrast to the wellknown effect of crowding out private investments by the public one, in the innovation sector public investments has a positive effect on the volume of private investments. Petelski, Milesi and Verre use the example of the innovation system in Argentina to prove that there is no complete crowding-out effect [9]. Azoulay, Zivin, Li, and Sampat come to conclusion that public funding spurs the development of private-sector patents [10].…”

SME segmentation and regional development agencies’ innovation support measures

“…However, 91% of the interviewed companies claim that they had not received any public financial support for R&D and other innovation activities between January 2011 and February 2014, making this an area of potential improvement for public authorities. A report by Frontier Economics conducted on UK micro-level companies shows that business innovation-support programmes have the positive effect on their survival rate, turnover and employment (Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2017), while others have found a causal effect of the public support on the 'firm's technological efforts' (Petelski et al, 2020).…”

“…However, its details have to be suited to particular groups of companies. For example, Petelski et al (2020) found that for the companies from developing countries, which are, in general, not very innovative, the monetary impact of support is not significant enough to permanently alter their behaviour and innovation strategy. As a consequence, other support conditions and programmes have to be established.…”