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On 2 July 2020, the State Secretary of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK), Mona Keijzer, granted support to nine individual 'SME Deals'. Through these deals, the government collaborates with regional authorities to support the broad spectrum of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal? To enable successful entrepreneurship, both now and in the future.
The SME Deals serve as a policy tool with an experimental and open character; the regions themselves are responsible for initiating projects to support their own SMEs and receive support from EZK in the form of knowledge, networks, and financial contributions. Given the experimental nature, these deals also offer a great opportunity to learn from each other: what works and what doesn't? To answer this question effectively, it is valuable to be able to measure and evaluate the impact of the various activities undertaken. Such measurement can also serve as a basis to demonstrate the added value of this policy instrument.
Over the past months, Dialogic has conducted an analysis of the initial nine SME Deals and has developed specific guidelines to monitor their impact.
