We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional … consequential choices of startups. We argue that middle management is positively related to introducing product innovations because … sample of German high-tech startups, we find support for our conjectures. …

Innovation and export decisions are closely interlinked. Both activities contribute to firm performance in various ways …: exporting provides a wider market to sell products, while innovation provides new and better products to supply those markets … and/or more efficient ways to reduce costs. The connection of innovation and exporting is of major interest to developing …

This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement …

. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …

The scope of this paper is to investigate whether imitation strategies adopted by startups are effective in the pursuit … of enhanced entrepreneurial innovation. To this end, a literature review was carried out in order to develop a research … framework with factors related to imitation predicting entrepreneurial innovation. Moreover, managerial skills and …

focused on the evolutionary process behind firm growth and survival. Recently a growing interest is devoted to the variable …-specific characteristics that may play a relevant role in determining the growth and survival of a firm. Some works see university …

reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

This paper addresses the field of product innovation in the context of current sustainability requirements in order to … identify the relationship between sustainable development and product innovation. The demand for products continues to increase …. The main research questions addressed in this article are: What is the correlation between product innovation and …