the latvian measure for commencing commercial activity or selfemployment programme which aimed to support business creation by unemployed individuals encountered similar challenges oecdeu in other cases some firms might define as innovative some of their usual activities or introduce changes to comply with requirements but with no effective longlasting impacts on inclusiveness and the innovation performance of firms such as recruiting workers from minority groups without giving them the opportunity to engage in research with benefiting from funding the only objective for example some benefitiaries of the hungarian innovation voucher programme were found to use vouchers to finance their usual innovation activities this is known as the crowding out effect of public funding