This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting … from a knowledge-based view, the aim is to achive a better understanding of how the role perceived by innovating SMEs of … such as secrecy or lead time advantage are explored. This is because different knowledge protection practices must not only …

In the long-run, innovation performance has weakened somewhat in German small and me-dium enterprises (SMEs). In …&D). In order to remove the innovation barriers in these SMEs, public policy may play an important role. The empirical … analysis reveals that less R&D-oriented SMEs are indeed more likely to face a number of constraints in their innovation …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

specificities of their knowledge environments. In order to evaluate this in terms of innovation policy, we examine how these … non-use) of in-house R&D, their reliance on external sources of knowledge, and the degree of internal interactive learning … that they employ.In order to account for non-R&D innovation activities, we apply the STI/DUI concept as a theoretical …