Direct public support for business R&D is a well-established remedy to market failures, yet empirical evidence on its eectiveness yields con icting results. The paper investigates the impact of the rst European public R&D grant program targeting small and medium enterprises (i.e. the SME Instrument) on a wide range of rm outcomes. We leverage the […]
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