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González Varona, José Manuel Martín Cruz, Teresa Natalia Acebes Senovilla, Fernando Pajares Gutiérrez, Javier Producción Científica In this paper, we apply a case study approach to advance current understanding of what effects public co-funding of R&D projects have on project team members’ perceived complexity. We chose an R&D project carried out by an industrial SME in northern Spain. The chosen research strategy was a qualitative approach, and sixteen employees participated in the project. We held in-depth semi-structured interviews at the beginning and end of the co-funded part of the project. NVivo data analysis software was used for qualitative data analysis. Results showed a substantial increase in perceived complexity. We observed that this was due to unresolved tension between the requirements of the project’s co-financing entity and normal SME working procedures. New working procedures needed to be developed in order to comply with the co-financing entity’s requirements. However, overall perceived complexity significantly decreased once the co-financed part of the project was completed. 2023-02-06 2023-02-06 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal of Business Research, 2023, vol. 158, p. 113672. 0148-2963 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58524 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113672 113672 Journal of Business Research 158 eng https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296323000309 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © 2023 The Author(s) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier