caa a22 4500 467994064 CHVBK 20180323112553.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00389528 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00389528 Evaluating a Dutch scheme for encouraging research & development [Elektronische Daten] [Marten van den Berg, Asje van Dijk, Noé van Hulst] This paper contains an evaluation over the period 1984-1988 of an important instrument of Dutch technology policy: a generic subsidy on R&D labor costs which especially favours small firms. The evaluation is based on surveys among nearly 3000 subsidy-using firms and on empirical analysis. The surveys show that the subsidy effectively strengthened the R&D activities of small firms in particular. It can be concluded from the empirical analysis that the subsidy generated between 40 and 150% of additional R&D spending. Given the large spill-over effects of R&D this probably means that the social benefits of the subsidy outweigh the costs. The ‘incubation period' of subsidies like the Dutch scheme require consistency and continuity of governmental (R&D) policies in order to influence corporate strategies, in particular those of small firms. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 van den Berg Marten Directorate of Technology Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, P.O. Box 20101, 2500 EC, The Hague, The Netherlands aut van Dijk Asje Directorate of Technology Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, P.O. Box 20101, 2500 EC, The Hague, The Netherlands aut van Hulst Noé Directorate of Technology Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, P.O. Box 20101, 2500 EC, The Hague, The Netherlands aut Small Business Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/3(1990-09-01), 199-211 0921-898X 2:3<199 1990 2 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389528 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389528 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van den Berg Marten Directorate of Technology Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, P.O. Box 20101, 2500 EC, The Hague, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van Dijk Asje Directorate of Technology Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, P.O. Box 20101, 2500 EC, The Hague, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van Hulst Noé Directorate of Technology Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, P.O. Box 20101, 2500 EC, The Hague, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/3(1990-09-01), 199-211 0921-898X 2:3<199 1990 2 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer