Public support (subsidy) for innovation: empirical evidence regarding an industrial PYME from south-eastern Mexico

This work was aimed at studying three types of bias in support for innovation being requested and conceded in industrial PYMEs in Mexico (motivation bias, selection and administrative bias and information bias), An empirical study was thus made of 169 subsidised and non-subsidised industrial PYMEs. Empirical study data was collected via a questionnaire aimed at company managers. The results showed that companies requesting public subsidies had better technology. The firms chosen by the Administration for subsidies to be awarded to had strong-good technology, explorer-analyser strategy and a higher percentage of exports, It was also found on analysing information bias in the firms which did not request support that the best informed were characterised by exporting more and being older.