(1) Provide new comprehensive evidence on the incidence and design of R&I tax incentives.
Under this objective, the project has effectively extended:
- the range of countries for which evidence is available over the two data collections carried out up to date
- the temporal scope of evidence - providing for the first time a truly historical perspective on policy developments in this area across countries
- the quality of evidence available, by effectively cross validating and updating information for greater accuracy, making effective use of the expert networks built through this project to ensure international comparability and consistency with other data sources
- the scope of quantified information, by extending the extent to which indicators reflect complex support patterns in different countries and render them comparable
- the frequency with which data are available - with annual updates for the statistical and qualitative outputs
- the accessibility and interpretability of the data and indicators, through various OECD dissemination mechanisms and explanatory notes
It has done so by combining quantative and qualitative methods. Qualitative insights underpin the entire exercise and a policy initiative database has been made available. Qualitative data have also been converted into quantitative policy indicators. Government tax expenditure indicators complete the portfolio of results.
(2) Deliver new evidence on the impact of R&I tax incentives
A major review of the evidence on impacts has been released at the very beginning of this project and provides the OECD reference document in this subject.
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/r-d-tax-incentives-evidence-on-design-incidence-and-impacts_5jlr8fldqk7j-en(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) Original new work on the analysis of the impact of R&D tax incentives has resulted in two main outputs:
- A demonstration of the potential of the R&D tax support indicators to explore key policy questions at the aggregate level of economies, assessing the comparative performance of tax support vis a vis direct funding of R&D and other generic tax measures.
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/measuring-r-d-tax-support_d16e6072-en(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)- An in depth, cross-country analysis of the micro and meso factors underpinning the input additionality of R&D tax support - the results of the microBeRD workstream - to be published at the end of Q1/early Q2 2020.
(3) Foster knowledge sharing
Knowledge sharing has been a central element for this project, mostly articulated through the interactions with and within expert communities with both interest and responsibility over different dimensions of the subject, particularly policy makers, government statisticians and analysts. This has been achieved through:
- Three expert and practitioner workshops on the evidence on R&D tax incentives, with wide participation from STI and tax policy and statistical communities as well as academics.
- 2 expert workshops and a major conference on R&D microdata analysis, contributing to developing statistical infrastructure within countries for microdata analysis of R&D policies.
- Setting up two and maintaining online community spaces for the two experts communities targeted in this project (R&D tax incentives and R&D microdata analysis)
- Several presentations to OECD policy committees, national governments as well as one presentation to European Commission officials in Brussels.
- Comprehensive publication of project outputs in a streamlined OECD reference website -
http://oe.cd/rdtax(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) - Country focus - through the release of country-specific notes on R&D tax incentives, briefing governmental senior officials on the project, as well as targeted support for data infrastructure development,
- Active media campaign of key outputs, coordinated across the OECD STI Directorate and the EU DG RTD.
- Submission of papers to academic and policy conferences.
