Abstract
The present study, which assesses the impact of the National Technological Development Support Program (ADTEN) and Scientific and Technological Development Fund (FNDCT), sponsored by the Research & Projects Financing Agency (FINEP), on the technical performance and strength of Brazilian industrial firms, is unprecedented in its content and method. It shows that this R&D incentive programs reaches a relatively limited number of firms, considering the magnitude of the Brazilian industrial sector. The program reaches less than 0,1% of Brazilian industrial firms with over ten employees, and the volume of resources that firms borrowed within the program’s framework was less than 3% of their R&D expenditures in 2000 and 2003. It was found evidences that Programs had a positive influence on companies’ private R&D expenditures from 1996 to 2003. One can say that at least the crowding out hypothesis can be rejected. There are also strong evidences that the program has positively influenced the growth of firms.References
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