Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>The policy measure aims at an increased R&D and innovation capabilities of SMEs by fostering collaboration with public research institutions and RTOs, improving knowledge transfer and by strengthening quality and relevance of public R&D. The Innovation Voucher has been introduced to inspire SMEs to utilise the opportunities and potential of knowledge institutions. At the same time, the Innovation Voucher Scheme is expected to enhance the awareness at knowledge institutions of the need for knowledge and thus secure the quality and societal relevance of public research. The scheme is open for projects within all scientific fields and the administrative structure of the scheme is designed in a manner to reduce bureaucratic measures as much as possible for the project participants. The Council of Technology and Innovation is responsible for the scheme and has decided that state co-funding is channelled directly from the Danish Agency of Science, Technology and Innovation to the research or technological partners of the projects, relieving the SME from the burden of invoicing its project partner.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.google.co.uk/url Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection SMEs in Denmark that have existed for at least a year. To be eligibile the SMEs had to have less than 12 employees and no previous formal interaction with universities or research tech organisations. Eligible SMEs that applied for the vouchers were placed into a lottery. It should be noted that while this scheme started out as an RCT, the lottery approach had to be stopped at a later stage. Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups 130 SMEs Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description A voucher aimed at encouraging collaboration between SMEs and universities/research tech organisations (RTOs). The voucher provides access to scientific knowledge and/or equipment. The value of the voucher is maximum DKK 100.000 (+- 10.000 GBP) and requires 50% co-financing. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Citation for use in academic references
