Government Incentives for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An International Experience

Mahmoud M. Abdellatif · Binh Tran-Nam · Marina Ranga · Sabina Hodžić

Nov 2022 · Springer Nature

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This book examines the role of government fiscal and non-fiscal incentives in spurring innovation and entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies. It explores and examines the role of government programs in different stages of firm growth pre-startup, startup, and scale-up. By developing a theoretical framework and reviewing international evidence, the book identifies the best combination of government incentives to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship, and provides concrete policy recommendations for decision-makers. Some of the issues tackled in this book include national innovation policy, innovation support programs, effectiveness of the support, challenges associated with the programs, risk-sharing and partnerships for innovation. This book is of interest to academics, students, practitioners, policymakers, governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as other stakeholders who wants to be informed about the challenges, progress and current trendin stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship.

About the author

Mahmoud M. Abdellatif is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of Center for Entrepreneurship, College of Business & Economics – Qatar University since 2013. He has published widely in the area of promoting entrepreneurship and innovation policies.

Binh Tran-Nam is Professor at UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney (Kensington, NSW, Australia) and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). His research focuses on taxation, trade and development economics. He has published in leading tax journals around the world.

Marina Ranga works with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain, and is an Associate Professor on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Warsaw's School of Management (Warszawa, Poland). Her main areas of expertise include national and regional innovation ecosystems; regional innovation and smart specialization; the entrepreneurial university; technology transfer and research commercialization; University-Industry cooperation; academic entrepreneurship; and gender in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.

Sabina Hodzic is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Public Finance at the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of Rijeka, Croatia. Her main fields of research are finance, public finance, digital economy, international taxation issues and local and regional government. She lectures on public finance and international taxation and is the author of several papers published in scientific journals and book chapters.

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