Finardi U., Working Paper Cnr-Ceris, N° 19/2014

PRO.TE.INN. financing did cover such
grants, which were aimed at employing for
one year (12 months) a graduate holding a
(minimum) 5-years University degree. He/she
had to collaborate with both the firm and the
Department/Institute
to
perform
the
innovation project. Competing firms did
finance 15 % of the grants (which were about
€ 20,000 each).
At the beginning of the project a survey was
sent to participating firms in order to collect
preliminary data. At the end of the project an
evaluation survey was sent to the persons in
charge of the projects in the firms, as well as
to the grantees.
The survey was prepared by the FRAME
laboratory of COREP (Regional Consortium
for Permanent Eduation), which was in charge
of the evaluation of the project.
In the surveys it was possible (thanks to the
collaboration of FRAME) to insert specific
sets of questions. These questions aimed at
understanding the nature of the innovation

projects and other relevant features as the
following will show.

5. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS.
In the context of PRO.TE.INN. 210 projects
were presented by 177 firms. Out of these,
149 presented one project, 24 presented two
projects, 3 presented 3 projects and 1
presented 4 projects. The vast majority of the
firms (93.8%) had its main seat in Piedmont
(91.0% in the Province of Turin). 65 project
have been financed out of the 210. 93.0% of
the 65 firms had the main seat in Piedmont
(90.8 % in the province of Turin).
Tables 1 to 4 present some relevant data on
the selected firms. Table 1 reports the
industrial sectors of the firms; Table 2 shows
the dimension of participating firms in terms
of the number of employees; table 3 reports
the turnover data of the firms; table 4 presents
the data on the number of employees crossed
with the year of foundation of the firm.

Table 1: industrial sectors of firms participating to PRO.TE.INN.

Sector

10

Firms

Manufacturing

23

Building

2

Transports and communications

1

Real estate, informatics, research

33

Health and social assistance

1

Other services (social and personal)

1

No data

4

TOTAL

65