Abstract
The concept of behavioural additionality has become influential within innovation policy evaluation. A review of the behavioural additionality literature concludes, however, that there is limited empirical evidence on the existence and nature of behavioural additionality. Mainly, little is known about the attitudinal and strategic facets of behavioural additionality. The review also concludes that there is limited empirical insight into the heterogeneity of behavioural additionality effects and the determinants of behavioural additionality.This thesis utilises a unique dataset of U.K. firms to advance empirical understanding of the concept of behavioural additionality. Propensity score matching and logistic regression techniques are applied to the data to derive the empirical insights. 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.
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.
| Date of Award | Dec 2019 |
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| Original language | English |
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| Sponsors | Northern Ireland Department for the Economy & Research and Development Management Association (RADMA) |
| Supervisor | Nola Hewitt-Dundas (Supervisor) |