The Role of Tax Incentives in Innovation Policies: theoretical considerations and recent developments

The objective of this paper is to discuss the role of tax incentives as part of national innovation policies from a theoretical perspective. Tax incentives are commonly interpreted as closer to a market failure rationale, but they can also play a role as part of a broad evolutionary policy strategy....

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Autor: Gama e Colombo, Daniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)
Repositorio:Economia Ensaios
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/58493
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistaeconomiaensaios/article/view/58493
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:política brasileira de inovação; política de inovação; incentivos fiscais.
Brazilian innovation policy; innovation policy; tax incentives.
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Sumario:The objective of this paper is to discuss the role of tax incentives as part of national innovation policies from a theoretical perspective. Tax incentives are commonly interpreted as closer to a market failure rationale, but they can also play a role as part of a broad evolutionary policy strategy. The theoretical debate provides a conceptual framework to explain the increasing relevance of tax incentives in different countries as from the 2008 economic crisis. The Brazilian experience seems inconsistent with this trend, as the reduction of public budget to innovation was not followed by an upsurge of tax incentives.