Examining the behavioural additionality impacts of public support

The results indicate that receipt of an innovation voucher - the programme examined in this thesis - stimulates behavioural additionality at the firm, project and individual levels of analysis. Notably, the results show that receipt of an innovation voucher encourages a positive change in managerial attitudes to innovation, risk, and external knowledge. The behavioural additionality of innovation vouchers appears to differ across firms.

A series of firm, project and senior manager characteristics are found to explain the differences in the behavioural additionality induced across firms.<br><br>Overall, this study contributes to a better empirical understanding of the existence and nature of the concept of behavioural additionality. Notably, this study provides amongst the first empirical insights into the attitudinal and strategic facets ofbehavioural additionality and the role of senior manager characteristics as detenninants of behavioural additionality.<br>