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| 2dzb4_v1 | ESA’s Business Incubation Centres’ (ESA BICs) impact on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) | This research studies the impact of Business Incubation Centres established by European Space Agency in several European countries on a specific indicator of their economies using difference in difference (DID) and Instrumental Variable (IV) methodology. To measure the impact, two groups of countries were compared – countries, where ESA BICs have been deployed (treatment group) and countries were ESA BICs were not deployed (control group) for time period between 2003 and 2016. In view of the fact that the ESA BIC foster innovation and entrepreneurship by incubating start-ups for one or more years, this research focused on an impact highlighting the benefit toward generally small companies and identified SDG Indicator 9.3.1 - Proportion of small-scale industries in total industry value added (%) - as an appropriate measure. The research avails of data from different sources: UN SDG database (United Nations, 2020), internal and external ESA database and World Data Bank database (World Bank, 2020). In this paper, the researcher sought to examine whether the proportion of small-scale industries in total industry value added (%) is higher for the treatment group where ESA BIC was deployed. The two regression methods implemented in this paper suggest that treatment group shows a statistically significant higher proportion of small-scale industries in total industry value added (%) compared to the control group. It is known that SMEs can add significant value to the countries’ economy and this result can be particularly useful for countries aiming to increase both their SME and technology based economy. The results of this research are considered for peer review in order to establish the robustness on this result in order to potentially influence future policy decisions on the establishment of ESA BICs in different regions other than Europe and the developing world. | 2024-11-14T15:58:56.810381 | 2024-11-14T16:03:28.394176 | 2024-11-14T16:01:27.159608 | https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/SQPWX | lissa | 1 | pending | 1 | 1 | https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/2dzb4 | MIT License | Acceleration; Incubation | ["Acceleration", "Incubation"] | Elia Montanari | [{"id": "d8uex", "name": "Elia Montanari", "index": 0, "orcid": "0000-0002-9975-4958", "bibliographic": true}] | Elia Montanari | Social and Behavioral Sciences; Library and Information Science; Collection Development and Management; Information Literacy | [{"id": "59bac9db54be81031d5cc79e", "text": "Social and Behavioral Sciences"}, {"id": "59bac9db54be81031d5cc79f", "text": "Library and Information Science"}, {"id": "59bac9db54be81031d5cc7a3", "text": "Collection Development and Management"}, {"id": "59bac9db54be81031d5cc7a5", "text": "Information Literacy"}] | https://osf.io/download/67361e4f8bfe2cdb9f62f71f | 0 | not_applicable | not_applicable | [] | 2025-04-09T21:06:21.702806 |