Public Financial Funds Efficiency Regarding the Development of Innovative Activities in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: the Case of Slovenia

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Public Financial Funds Efficiency Regarding the Development of Innovative Activities in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: the Case of SloveniaIn this article, the authors present a method of measuring the efficiency of use of national and European public funds for promoting action in companies, including the process from a draft idea to the placement of a product or service on market. The method of measuring has been done with a matrix system, through which we have shown the distribution of public funds between service brokers that offer services for the raising of the abilities to the companies. The matrix system includes the impact matrix of service brokers on innovation enablers. Based on the assembling matrix, we have composed efficiency measures, which can serve policyholders in guiding and controlling public funds.

An Innovative Approach to Organizational Changes for Sustainable Processes: A Case Study on Waste Minimization

“…We chose to test all methods and techniques for which at least ten respondents evaluated impact. This decision was based on examples provided in several sources [76][77][78]. The results of all 63 tests are presented in Tables 4 and 5, with p-values reported in the tables.…”