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On 2 July 2020, the State Secretary of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK), Mona Keijzer, approved support for nine individual 'SME Deals'. Through these deals, the national government collaborates with regional authorities to support the broad SME sector. The goal? Ensuring successful entrepreneurship, both now and in the future.
The SME Deals serve as a policy tool with an experimental and open nature; regions are empowered to initiate projects to support their local SMEs and receive support from EZK in the form of knowledge, networks, and financial contributions. Given the experimental nature, these deals also serve as a great opportunity to learn from each other: what works and what doesn't? To answer that question effectively, it is valuable to be able to measure and assess the impact of the various activities undertaken. Such measurements can also serve as a basis for demonstrating the added value of the policy tool.
Over the past months, Dialogic has conducted an analysis of the first nine SME Deals and developed specific tools to monitor the impact of these deals. Read the report here.
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