TY - JOUR
T1 - Public support of innovative activity in small and large firms in Mexico
AU - Guerrero, Maribel
AU - Link, Albert N.
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - The National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT) was established in 1970 by the Mexican government. CONACYT was formed to promote the scientific development and technological modernization of Mexico through developing high-level human resources, encouraging research projects, and disseminating scientific/technological information. In 2009, CONACYT launched the Innovation Stimulus Program (PEI) to foster enterprises’ innovation activities and to encourage collaboration on innovation activities among firms and between firms and public research institutes and higher education institutions. Based on an analysis of project data from the PEI program over the years 2009 through 2014, we found that large firms are more innovative than small firms. And, firms that are more innovative are those that had prior funded research, collaborated with universities in the funded research project, added new employees during the research project, and faced larger markets for their innovations.
AB - The National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT) was established in 1970 by the Mexican government. CONACYT was formed to promote the scientific development and technological modernization of Mexico through developing high-level human resources, encouraging research projects, and disseminating scientific/technological information. In 2009, CONACYT launched the Innovation Stimulus Program (PEI) to foster enterprises’ innovation activities and to encourage collaboration on innovation activities among firms and between firms and public research institutes and higher education institutions. Based on an analysis of project data from the PEI program over the years 2009 through 2014, we found that large firms are more innovative than small firms. And, firms that are more innovative are those that had prior funded research, collaborated with universities in the funded research project, added new employees during the research project, and faced larger markets for their innovations.
KW - Innovation
KW - Mexico
KW - Public program evaluation
KW - R&D
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107677733&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11187-021-00517-1
DO - 10.1007/s11187-021-00517-1
M3 - Article
VL - 59
SP - 413
EP - 422
JO - Small Business Economics
JF - Small Business Economics
SN - 0921-898X
IS - 1
ER -