, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

investment in R&D is associated with the production of a higher quality or faster innovation, with a positive impact on sales and … in a macro sense, an increase of GDP. This paper raises the issue that good innovation need a strong marketing effort in … order for this innovation to have an impact on sales, it needs to be desired by consumers. This paper finds empirical …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …