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Access to finance for innovation : the role of venture capital and the stock market
Bogliacino, Francesco; Lucchese, Matteo - 2011
innovative activity in Europe: the Innovation Union Scoreboard and the R&D Scoreboard. With the first, we study the determinants … of the venture capital/GDP intensity in Europe. With the second, we try to assess the contribution of stock market to R …
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Design and European firms' innovative performance : a less costly innovation activity for European SMEs?
Ciriaci, Daria - 2011
The objective of this study is to provide an analysis of the importance of design - defined as the procedures, choice of elements and technical preparation to implement a new product - and R&D investments as drivers of European firms' innovation performance. In addition, it specifically analyses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982139
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Young SMEs : driving innovation in Europe?
Veugelers, Reinhilde; Ferrando, Annalisa; Lekpek, Senad; … - 2018
Using large scale EIB Investment Survey evidence for 2016 covering 8,900 non-financial firms from all size and age 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"...
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Innovating for sustainable growth : a bioeconomy for Europe
2012
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R&D-intensive SMEs in Europe : what do we know about them?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley; Voigt, Peter - 2009
The importance of SMEs in Europe's innovation process can be seen in both the academic and the political arena. Adopted … in June 2008, the 'Small Business Act' for Europe reflects the Commission's political will to recognise the central role … development. This kind of policy calls for a more in-depth look into the nature of the SME population in Europe. Several attempts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056191
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Design, innovation and performance in European firms
Montresor, Sandro; Vezzani, Antonio - 2017
This paper provides some new theoretical speculations and empirical evidence on the relationship between design, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity of introducing product/process innovations, but that...
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The impact of technological innovation on the future of work
Goos, Maarten; Arntz, Melanie; Zierahn, Ulrich; … - 2019
New digital technologies more and more diffuse into the economy. Due to this digitisation, machines become increasingly able to perform tasks that previously only humans could to. Production processes and organizations are changing, new products, services and business models emerge. These trends...
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The impact of Covid-19 and of the earlier crisis on firms' innovation and growth : a comparative analysis
Santos, Anabela Marques; Haegeman, Karel; Moncada … - 2021
Using the results of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (2009 to 2020 editions), this paper aims to assess the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the probabilities of firm to innovate and grow and to compare their likelihood with that of the previous downturn. To control for a...
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Innovation and competitiveness in European biotechnology
Allansdottir, Agnes (contributor);  … - 2002
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The relationship between industrial concentration, firm size, and technological innovation
Bomberger, Earl E. - 1982
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