on SMEs, is struggling to regain competitiveness in global markets. In light of these stylised facts, we first … investigate whether innovating activities and quality goods’ production enhance Italian SMEs’ probability to be exporter. Our … findings suggest that both products’ quality and innovative activities affect considerably SMEs’ likelihood to export …

The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance … quality affect firm-level innovation, utilising a dataset for 1,400 non-financial US-listed companies. Using two-way cluster …

Existing research on the relationship between market concentration and innovation has produced conflicting findings. In … addition, the emerging literature on the relationship between corporate governance and innovation tends to focus only on … partial effects of corporate governance on innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating both partial and …

This paper focuses on innovation for new product with exogenously determined horizontal difference from initial product … innovation. The paper through a model shows that for horizontally similar new product, competition is superior to monopoly to … than a competitive innovator does if innovation is complex, but brings about lower endogenous quality than the innovator …

This paper evaluates the impact of R&D public support on the innovation activities of a sample of Italian SMEs. Unlike … most of the literature, the analysis focuses more deeply on the innovation output than on the innovation input. The … innovation output is measured through patent data. By using a new data set obtained by combining information from EPO records and …

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the strategic dimensions of SMEs and how each dimension is rated by owners and … managers of SMEs. The other objective of the study was to ascertain if differences in strategic planning practices existed with … of strategic planning that SMEs can implement to be competitive and sustainable. …

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the strategic dimensions of SMEs and how each dimension is rated by owners and … managers of SMEs. The other objective of the study was to ascertain if differences in strategic planning practices existed with … of strategic planning that SMEs can implement to be competitive and sustainable. …