The Impacts of some Types of Government Expenditure on National Innovation Output

Abstract

Innovation is one of the key elements for national economic growth, creation of new jobs and prosperity. Activating national innovation process and maintain a sustainable national economic growth, needs inputs improvement of input to achieve those objectives. The required   inputs are government expenditures on health, education, and research & development that might have a considerable impact on national innovation output at country level. This paper examines the relationship  between  the previously  mentioned government expenditures and the  country national innovation output .The main results of the statistical tests and  analysis suggest that there  is a statistically significant impact of government expenditures  on national innovation output .This result highlights   the necessity for paying extra attention, specially by developing countries governments to the fields of national health, education and R&D to facilitate the improvement  of  the country national innovation output .

Keywords: Government health Expenditure, Government education Expenditure, Government R&D Expenditure, National Innovation, and economic growth.