A second phase of the evaluation will address the analysis for projects completed in later years. In this way, it is intended that the final conclusions will be available to the European Commission by mid-2020.
Source:CDTI.
On November 5, María Ascensión Barajas, technician of the Department of Analysis and Control of @CDTIoficial, presented to the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission(DG COMP), the results of the Interim Impact Assessment Report of the aid scheme for R&D projects granted by this organization, which has been prepared by a team of external evaluators belonging to the consulting firm Novadays and the Complutense University of Madrid.
The presentation of this report took place within the framework of a day in which experiences and best practices were exchanged among European administrations involved in the management of State Aid.
The report presented by the CDTI is a good practice from the point of view of the integration of quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques, as well as the use of databases that have been of great value for this evaluation. Furthermore, the results obtained show that the direct and indirect impacts of the aid granted in the period 2010-2015 to Spanish companies are sufficient, relevant and do not produce market distortions.
The collaboration of INE and the cooperation of 200 companies that have participated in the fieldwork have been essential to carry out this evaluation.
Main conclusions
The study highlights that innovative companies that receive CDTI grants create more skilled R&D jobs and increase their productivity. Specifically, nearly 40% of these companies have generated skilled jobs, compared to 30% of innovative companies that have not received this aid.
Among the main conclusions of the report, positively assessed by the European Commission, it should also be noted that 54% of the companies improved their industrial processes and have developed more innovations in their production processes, compared to 38% of the innovative companies that did not receive aid from this body.
On the other hand, some of these technological projects have contributed to the promotion of public-private technological cooperation and, in some cases, have obtained ERDF funding.
Abbreviated version of the study in Spanish.