Taxation and Corporate Innovation

This project investigates the impact of taxation on corporate innovation in the context of the knowledge economy.

In particular, the proposed research will investigate how taxes affect the incentives of firms to invest in R&D activities and to create intellectual property, and how taxes affect firm productivity. The work-packages combine theoretical and micro-econometric approaches which take into account the characteristics of tax systems.

Duration November 2010 - March 2012

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• Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest, Board of Directors, ZEW President, University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
• PD. Dr. Friedrich Heinemann, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Department of Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
• Christoph Ernst, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Department of Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
• Dr. Alexander Kalb, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Department of Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
• Florian Misch, PhD, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Department of Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
• Associate Prof. Dr. Richard Kneller, Ph.D., University of Nottingham, School of Economics
• Nadine Riedel, PhD, University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Spengel, University of Mannheim, Department of Business Administration and International Taxation