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Assessing a Micro and Small Businesses Innovation Support Programme in Brazil: The Local Innovation Agents Programme
Author(s) -
Carvalho Gustavo Dambiski Gomes,
Carvalho Hélio Gomes,
Cardoso Hugo Henrique Roth,
Gonçalves Adriana Dantas
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3387
Subject(s) - general partnership , product (mathematics) , business , service (business) , small business , marketing , economic growth , economics , finance , geometry , mathematics
Created by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE) and developed in partnership with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the local innovation agents (LIA) programme aims to convey innovation to Brazilian micro and small businesses (MSBs) and has covered around 150 000 MSBs since 2008. Notwithstanding, assessments of the LIA programme are still limited. Therefore, this paper aims to assess the impact of the LIA programme based on a sample of over 6000 MSBs. Results show that all dimensions improved to some extent, but marketing and organizational‐related innovations improved more than product and process‐related ones. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.