examples include research grant schemes innovation vouchers and entrepreneurship education schemes among others policy instruments that address social inclusiveness include for example the provision of giants to researchers from disadvantaged groups the use of role models and mentoring programmes to tackle stereotypes and the deployment of programmes to popularise science and technology to address industrial inclusiveness challenges innovation policies may focus on addressing the main barriers to entrepreneurship encountered by disadvantaged groups such as obstacles to access finance eg through the provision of microcredit and equity financing talent eg through grants to smes to recruit researchers or experts to implement innovation projects or other support services eg through the provision of business counselling assistance to access new markets etc