Aspirations and Financial Decisions: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
This randomised experiment tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations among poor entrepreneurs.
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What Prevents More Small Firms from Using Professional Business Services ? An Information and Quality-Rating Experiment in Nigeria
This study asks why more small firms in developing countries do not use the market for professional business services like accounting, marketing, and human resource specialists and asks how this could be altered.
Managerial or entrepreneurial capital? Untangling constraints of innovative entrepreneurs
This project investigates what type of non-financial capital has the larger impact on start-up performance - management or entrepreneurial capital?
Lifting Growth Barriers for New Firms: Evidence from an Entrepreneur Training Experiment with Two Million Online Businesses
Expansion of e-commerce presents new opportunities for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to enter broader market at lower costs, but the SMEs face barriers to growth after entry. To facilitate new entrants to overcome these barriers, this paper explores implementing a training program as a randomized controlled experiment with over two million new sellers on a large e-commerce platform.
Designing social networks: Joint tasks and the formation of network ties
This paper evaluates the effect of joint tasks on the creation of network ties with data from a novel field experiment with 112 aspiring entrepreneurs.
The Value of Competitor Information: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper asks to what extent firms are aware of readily available information on key competitor decisions, and how this information impacts firms’ strategic choices.
SIM Crowd: Improving the chances of crowdfunded projects through public endorsements
This trial focuses on projects that have already received a matched grant from the agency and are seeking crowdfunding to secure the remaining funds.
D3T: Assisting SMEs with digital transformation
Torino Wireless Foundation (TOWL) in Northern Italy leads this project that aims to improve its Digital Transformation support scheme. The scheme allows SMEs from the Piedmont region to change their business and organisational activities, processes, competencies and products by taking advantage of a mixture of digital technologies. The D3T project was prompted by the recognition that many companies are not taking full advantage of the advanced technologies or innovative business models the digital economy offers.
RCT4MANU: Testing an innovative support scheme for manufacturing SMEs and accelerating the use of RCTs in innovation agencies
This trial developed by KTN and Innovate UK aims to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of the 4Manufacturing® tool and the extra support offered by experts. 4Manufacturing® is an innovative support programme based on diagnosis and one-to-one consultant advice, which aims to accelerate the adoption of industrial digital technologies for manufacturing SMEs.
DIHnamic: Digital Innovation Hubs: dynamic facilitation and thrust from regional innovation agencies
Growing pressure on public budgets demands that support schemes become more innovative, effective, efficient, and evidence-based and that scarce resources are allocated to schemes with the greatest impact. This project aims to assess what level of support to SMEs is optimal for promoting the digitisation of their processes, products and assets. The aim of the project was to improve efficiency for the Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) and improve value for client SMEs while managing risk and helping businesses discover new opportunities for generating income.
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