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Note: IDRC is providing preliminary information on this funding opportunity to allow applicants time to prepare their applications. Information presented here may change and more information will be shared as it becomes available.
All proposals must identify potential innovation support programs that might form the basis of their research program. Direct-entry grants will be required to provide a detailed methodology suitable for examining identified the innovation support program(s).
Stage 1 proposals must identify principal and co-principal investigators based at a public research organization (e.g., a government-legislated public or private university) or a non-profit research organization (e.g., think tanks).
Direct-entry proposals will also have a principal investigator from a research organization but will include collaborators from innovation agencies who have or had some responsibility for the implementation of the innovation support program being investigated.
Stage 1 grants are to include representatives from two or more countries. Direct-entry grants do not have to involve two or more countries.
Scope
This funding opportunity aims to:
- generate new evidence on the performance and the distributional impacts of innovation support programs for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs),
- promote collaboration between researchers and innovation agencies, and
- strengthen networks and capacity for analysis and implementation of innovation policies.