Regional innovation systems in Central and Eastern Europe suffer from many handicaps connected with generally lower levels of business activity and unfavourable positions of firms within global value chains. In this paper, results of business coaching programmes implemented in South Moravia (Czechia) are evaluated. The success of support is assessed (1) in terms of turnover, value added and employment growth (using a counterfactual analysis), and (2) according to the maturity of companies. Average annual growth of the treated companies was higher compared to a control group of non-supported firms. Apart from the initial dynamic growth, the supported start-ups underwent the fastest growth between 2 and 3 years after entering the programme, when the impact of the support on their performance was fully expressed. The findings bring new insights into the effects of targeted support of companies, using unique company data combined with qualitative information on the results of evaluated measures.

中欧和东欧的区域创新体系存在许多障碍，这些障碍与普遍较低的商业活动水平和企业在全球价值链中的不利地位有关。在本文中，评估了在南摩拉维亚（捷克）实施的商业辅导计划的结果。支持的成功评估是 (1) 根据营业额、增加值和就业增长（使用反事实分析），以及 (2) 根据公司的成熟度。与未受支持公司的对照组相比，接受治疗的公司的平均年增长率更高。除了最初的动态增长外，受支持的初创企业在进入该计划后的 2 至 3 年内经历了最快的增长，此时支持对其绩效的影响得到了充分体现。