This paper explores links between developed innovations and business performance in small enterprises with fewer than 50 employees. It also examines how performance has changed over time during a period of five years. The empirical evidence is based on two quantitative datasets describing...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on innovation development in enterprises with fewer than 50 employees. It explores differences in innovation capacity and in the diversity of developed innovations across the four enterprise size categories within the small manufacturing and service...

Purpose – There are not many answers to the question of how the development projects launched to improve business performance in SMEs have succeeded. This study focuses on business development success in SMEs. The main objective is to structure and model the success dimensions that contribute...

This study focuses on innovation capabilities in small enterprises and how their development can be supported by regional strategies. The study utilizes multiple case studies. The empirical evidence is based on data from four regions in Finland. Each of them has adopted an industrial cluster...

This paper explores what kinds of innovations have been developed in small manufacturing and service enterprises and what has been the degree of innovation capacity that small enterprises possess. In addition, it compares what differences there are across the manufacturing and service sectors....

This paper explores the kind of learning that creates capabilities needed in incremental and radical innovation development. The empirical evidence is based on four innovation-related development projects, implemented through enterprise-student team collaboration. It seems that the richness of...

Purpose: Embracing a large set of innovation objectives and collaborating with diverse partners have been promoted as a means to improve innovation performance. However, empirical evidence on the relationships between breadth of objectives, breadth of cooperation and...