, 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 …

demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

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 …

"European Innovation Champions" successfully absorbed and reacted to the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Five different … European Innovation Champions during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We distill 10 management principles representing key … actions and decisions that allowed the European Innovation Champions to manage each paradox. This report provides policymakers …