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Is a policy mix more effective than individual policies for SME innovation? An exploratory analysis

Is a policy mix more effective than individual policies for SME innovation? An exploratory analysis

Caloffi, Annalisa, Freo, Marzia, Ghinoi, Stefano ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9857-4736, Rossi, Federica and Russo, Margherita (2019) Is a policy mix more effective than individual policies for SME innovation? An exploratory analysis. fteval - Journal for research and technology policy evaluation, 47. pp. 72-77. ISSN 1726-6629 (doi:10.22163/fteval.2019.333)

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Abstract

The provision of public funds to private firms for the purchase of services, particularly knowledge-intensive ones, has received so far little attention from the evaluation literature (Bakhshi et al., 2015; Bruhn et al., 2018 are notable exceptions). These interventions often target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), providing them with a small amount of public funds that reduce their cost of purchasing services (Storey, 2003). Public funding can take the form of a direct subsidy or a voucher, which firms must use to purchase services from accredited service providers, or sometimes from any provider freely chosen by the beneficiary firm (OECD, 2000; Storey, 2003; IEG, 2013).

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: innovation, policy mix
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Business
Faculty of Business > Department of International Business & Economics
Faculty of Business > Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC)
Faculty of Business > Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC) > Centre for Business Network Analysis (CBNA)
Last Modified: 13 Apr 2021 11:43
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28690

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