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EU R&D FUNDING AS A WAY OF INCENTIVISING INNOVATION OF SMES: REVIEW OF IMPACTS

The main idea behind this paper is to review and assess the impacts of participation of SMEs in EU R&D programmes as a way of boosting their innovation activities. The paper is concerned with several research questions which will helps us to detect, review and assess what were the results of the increased availability of EU R&D funding on boosting innovation activities of SMEs across the EU.We briefly survey the results of available empirical studies which used both quantitative and qualitative evidence and examine their outcomes which speak of direct and indirect impacts on innovation activities in SMEs in EU member states. The examined empirical evidence points towards several positive effects of participation in EU R&D Programmes on innovation performance of recipient SMEs.

SMEs, innovation, R&D, competitiveness, EU R&I funding

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