This report presents the main findings of Work Package 2 "Support to SMEs - Increasing research and innovation in SMEs and SME development", part of the ex post evaluation of Cohesion Policy programmes 2007-2013, focusing on the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It aims to assess the...

This report presents the main findings of Work Package 2 "Support to SMEs - Increasing research and innovation in SMEs and SME development", part of the ex post evaluation of Cohesion Policy programmes 2007-2013, focusing on the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It aims to assess the...

The Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (COSME) (2014 - 2020) was the successor to the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (2007-2013). The general objective of COSME was to strengthen the competitiveness and sustainability of SMEs,...

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP) was one of three programmes within the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007-2013). The EIP supported actions relating to: i) access to finance for SMEs; ii) creation of an environment favourable to SME cooperation (including...

Since 2021, the European Union has experienced historically high levels of inflation, with year-on-year increases in consumer prices reaching as high as 11.5 % in October 2022. The present study assesses how this environment of high inflation has affected small and medium-sized enterprises...

For over 20 years promoting entrepreneurship and encouraging new enterprises has been one of the priorities of the European Union and its Member States and a variety of measures have been put in place to support would-be entrepreneurs and newly established businesses. As well as creating the...