SUCCESS CASES
The Center for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI) is the main Spanish agency dedicated to financing companies to boost their research and development activities. The totality of its aid - divided into multiple instruments and calls for proposals - forms what, in terms of European competition law, is called a State Aid Scheme and, as such, must be approved by the European Union.
In order to approve it and to continue to be able to operate, the European Union requires the CDTI to carry out an evaluation exercise of the aid scheme, with a depth not comparable to any other evaluation of this type in Spain. For four years, the results, effects and impacts are evaluated, exploiting all existing sources on R&D in Spain and comparing the different behavior between companies that receive aid and those that do not.
After a competitive bidding process, Novadays was selected as the appropriate company to perform this evaluation, together with the Universidad Completense de Madrid, with whom our teams collaborate regularly.
Novadays and the Complutense University helped CDTI to accurately define the logic model of the evaluation of its aid scheme, as well as to implement the set of operations and field work necessary to perform it.
Over the course of four years, the necessary instruments were created to make this evaluation possible and two intensive evaluation exercises were carried out on all programs and calls for proposals.
More than 10 different programs were evaluated and more than 50 calls for proposals were studied. The results, which were positive for CDTI and for the companies, were made public and the report can still be downloaded from our client's website.