TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact analysis of public policies supporting SMEs’ technological innovation: an Italian case
AU - Novero, Serena
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of public policies
supporting firms’ innovation and technological development. The final aim is
to identify the factors that influence the effective success of these interventions.
This research analyses 166 small-medium enterprises (SMEs), located in a
high-tech region of the North–West of Italy, which received some public
supports. The results show that public interventions have not homogeneous
impacts on firms’ performances, but they depend on the firms’ age, size,
industrial sector and, most of all, on their innovative level, as well as on the
number, types, timing and extent of the projects realised. These results offer a
first account on firms’ reactions to public policies and provide an useful ground
to policymakers’ strategies to increase the regional economic growth.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of public policies
supporting firms’ innovation and technological development. The final aim is
to identify the factors that influence the effective success of these interventions.
This research analyses 166 small-medium enterprises (SMEs), located in a
high-tech region of the North–West of Italy, which received some public
supports. The results show that public interventions have not homogeneous
impacts on firms’ performances, but they depend on the firms’ age, size,
industrial sector and, most of all, on their innovative level, as well as on the
number, types, timing and extent of the projects realised. These results offer a
first account on firms’ reactions to public policies and provide an useful ground
to policymakers’ strategies to increase the regional economic growth.
KW - SMEs firms’ innovation support
KW - public interventions management
KW - public policies’ impact
KW - technological innovation
KW - SMEs firms’ innovation support
KW - public interventions management
KW - public policies’ impact
KW - technological innovation
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/30746
M3 - Article
SN - 1468-4322
SP - 34
EP - 56
JO - International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management
JF - International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management
ER -