innovation. Moreover, we show that expected deadweight effects related to start-up subsidies occur on a (much) lower scale than …

Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the … that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics … mediate the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation-based regional growth. It is suggested that network dynamics …

This paper estimates the effect of persistence of innovation on employment in Spanish manufacturing firms during the … period 1990–2008. Using GMM-system estimations, we study the importance of persistence of product and process innovation on … employment growth according to the size of the firms. The results support that process innovation shows a positive effect on …

Community Innovation Survey between 2004 and 2010, we try to determine: (1) those factors that cause firms to become YICs … innovation capacity and cooperation in R&D projects enhance the probability of becoming a YIC. Nevertheless, factors such as …

overcoming financial barriers to innovation. By exploiting firm-specific proxies of relationship lending I document a highly …

In recent years, there has been an increase in empirical and theoretical work that addresses the role of innovation as … one of the main sources of firm growth. The purpose of this special issue is to strengthen the role played by innovation … applied papers observe a positive link between innovation and firm growth, the complexity of R&D activities, together with the …

innovation output plays in shaping that relationship. We apply a vector auto-regression model to Finnish firm-level data and … express the need for further research on innovation dynamics and growth of SMEs analysing the interactions between different … innovation activities. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …