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Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the Covid-19 pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a more knowledge-based industrial structure will be high on the agenda for the coming decades. We study how more and better...
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detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of internal and external R&D on SMEs innovation performance … SMEs. In comparison, only external R&D showed positive association to product and process innovation for Pakistani SMEs … research study for the first time has examined the Indian and Pakistani SMEs innovation activities. The implication of this …
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California law that make non-compete agreements unenforceable. Consistent with our model of innovation, mobility rates outside of …
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Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …
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Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms’ innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
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This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …
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This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R …, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation activities …
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"Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs", code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration … Romanian SMEs in adopting the open innovation principles. In order to reach this objective, the authors analysed the available … statistical data for the period 2002-2012 concerning the trend of the SMEs' weight in the total innovation businesses compared to …
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being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational …, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three di erent types of education for employees with at least 16 years of … innovation activities on rm productivity. Using a rotating panel data sample of Danish rms, we nd that di erent types of …
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