Impacto de los proyectos de I+D+i empresarial: expectativas y resultados

  1. Ascensión Barajas 1
  2. Elena Huergo 2
  3. Lourdes Moreno 2
  1. 1 Departamento de Estudios y Comunicación (CDTI)
  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ESP)
Journal:
Cuadernos económicos de ICE

ISSN: 0210-2633

Year of publication: 2015

Issue Title: Contribuciones a la economía de la innovación: análisis de la I+D+i empresarial

Issue: 89

Pages: 165-188

Type: Article

DOI: 10.32796/CICE.2015.89.6099 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This article analyses the existing differences between expected and actual commercial returns to R&D in projects supported with public funding. For this purpose, qualitative and quantitative indicators on entrepreneur’s forecast error are calculated to be associated, later on, with individual features of beneficiaries. Reasons behind this forecast error are the uncertainty embodied in the R&D project (high-technology sectors; R&D intensive firms); the lack of knowledge about markets and competitors (firm size) and the required time until monetary returns are produced (unexpected delay in entry-to-market).

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