facts: If we include selection and allow contaminated data business counselling give positive impacts on value added, growth …In this study we evaluate a special form of business support - support to cover costs associated with business … counselling. The policy question is whether firms that receive this support within the Regional Business Development programme …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the state funded business counselling on firm growth. Design … counselling. Originality/value – The paper uses a matching procedure in order to infer causal effects of business counselling and …, since the programme currently suffer from a large potential for crowding-out, and low additional value of business …