Public procurement is widely regarded as an important instrument to foster innovation. We examine how additional award criteria beyond price relate to firms’ realized innovation performance by combining representative firm-level data from the German Innovation Survey with official tender-level...

This study investigates the determinants of financial performance among Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia, addressing the critical issues of low accountability and limited access to capital. Grounded in the Resource-Based View and Dynamic Capabilities Theory, the research...

This study systematically reviews 53 peer-reviewed articles on public sector innovation published between 2021 and 2025 to synthesize knowledge on how innovation is conceptualized, triggered, enacted, and constrained. Findings reveal that innovation is framed across technological,...

Public-sector innovation is frequently portrayed as the domain of dedicated innovation labs and experimental units, obscuring how innovation capacity can emerge within core bureaucratic institutions. This article explores how Norway's Brønnøysund Register Centre (BRC), mainly a registry...

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) account for most Welsh creative industries (CIs), positioning them as the main contributors to the sector's development. Despite the documented progress of the industry, there continue to be barriers hampering the engagement of MSMEs in research,...

This study aims to fill the research gap by empirically examining the effects of absorptive capacity on business performance within the scope of small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs), with a mediating role of innovation capability and technological capability in the global market. The study was...

In an era of increasingly intense global competition and digital transformation, enhancing the innovation capabilities of specialized small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is a critical strategic objective with respect to national competitiveness. Although the role of digital infrastructure...

This study examines the applicability and effectiveness of the Technological Innovation System (TIS) framework in developing countries, with a specific focus on Malaysia's semiconductor and electronics sector and its Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology development. Despite global recognition of GaN...