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This report has been prepared for a Mutual Learning Exercise on the Evaluation of Business R&D Grant Schemes.

SBRI brings together government challenges and ideas from business to create innovative solutions.

This study presents a thorough review of the SBRI process and the extent to which it achieves its goals and the impact the programme has.

This review from August 2015 has been published for transparency purposes as it supports the report: Leveraging public procurement to grow the innovation economy: an independent review of the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) - by David Connell, published in November 2017.

Presents key information and data relating to SME activities in the UK, including: Past & future SME performance; Progress on implementing the Small Business Act for Europe (SBA); and the UK Government's SME policy priorities.

The JRC managed Public Research Funding (PREF) study has collected information on and analysed national public research funding. It provides an overview of its evolution and current state in European and selected non-European countries, particularly as concerns funding themes, fields and the types of allocation (competitive project based versus institutional funding). The study was conducted by a consortium led by IRCRES CNR and involving researchers from USI, AIT and NIFU as well as a number of country experts.