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Blog Series #1: Incentives That Work
Chapter 1: Comparing Global R&D Tax Credit Policies
New iPhone? Yawn. Self-driving cars? Still a yawn.
Innovation moves so fast that even breakthrough technology barely catches our attention.
Behind the scenes, however, decades of empirical research show that innovation is nothing to overlook and one of the most powerful engines of long-term economic growth. While the importance of innovation is widely recognized, how best to incentivize it remains an area where global consensus is lacking.
In this series, we explore how 10 OECD countries structure their R&D tax credits to drive innovation and what the similarities and differences mean for the global economy.
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