MLE on Evaluation of Business R&D Grant Schemes: Summary Article – Evaluation of Business R&D Grant Schemes: new challenges, new opportunities

Grants and loans play a vital role in public innovation policy, prompting businesses to spend more on R&D and helping them overcome barriers to innovation such as risk aversion and market failures. With large sums – and even larger outcomes – at stake, R&D policy-makers need robust and reliable information, which demands a lot from evaluation methodologies.
Report summary
A Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE), carried out by the European Commission’s Policy Support Facility (PSF), explores the challenges and opportunities they face when developing R&D grant evaluation schemes fit for modern times.
Report year
2018
Official publication date
18/09/2018
Geo coverage
Report type
Mutual Learning
Document type
Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility