Policymakers devise a variety of policy tools to achieve their goals that successful implementation of these tools requires an analysis of their results and effects. In this regard, various methods are used to examine the effectiveness of government interventions and th More
Policymakers devise a variety of policy tools to achieve their goals that successful implementation of these tools requires an analysis of their results and effects. In this regard, various methods are used to examine the effectiveness of government interventions and their value and merit are determined from different dimensions on the stakeholders. The present study is conducted with the aim of qualitative composition the results of previouse studies in the field of evaluating the effectiveness of financial and tax incentive tools provided by governments in support of small and medium-sized or innovative businesses in order to stimulate research and development. For this purpose, 279 articles and reports from official and valid databases are identified, based on the Meta-synthesis methodology and after the completion of the necessary steps, 66 documents are finalized.
By analyzing and qualitative combining the results of policy evaluation studies, 15 effective indicators on firms performance are identified. These indicators are embedded in the research map in to 3 groups inputs, output and behaviural additionality. finally, through Shannon entropy method, the coefficient of effect the identified components in the map are determined. Research and development expenditure index from input additionality category and innovation index from the output additionality category respectivly have most important and influential in firms.
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