WP 2 Status quo review, best practice and data collection completed

The main objective of this work package was to use econometric methods to estimate the outcomes of different innovation support measures taking into account various features of the recipients. Apart from standard companies’ characteristics including: size, sector, exports and market reach also variables like age, regional and socio-cultural factors, measures of human capital as well as distance from successful/unsuccessful companies are considered.

This work package (WP2) is composed by 5 deliverables:

• D2.1 Report on assessment of selected methods of market segmentation

• D2.2 Report on the state of the art on enterprise life cycle, innovation cycles, industry sectors and socio-cultural characteristics of Finnish, Polish, Spanish and English regions

• D2.3 Report on the internal and external factors on the behavior and performance of SMEs

• D2.4 Report containing information collected during field studies

• D2.5 Report on evaluation of the impact of support measures