This study explores the characteristics and determinants of innovation of exceptionally innovative small and medium sized UK enterprises. The focus is placed on 'serial' innovators, defined as independent companies with a persistent unusually high frequency of innovations over time. The aim of...

This paper analyses the determinants of technological diversification for small innovative companies. Using patent data from the PATSTAT database for the period between 1990 and 2006, we explore technological diversification through a panel data set comprising 811 UK based serial innovators...

This paper presents a simple profitability based decision model to show how synergistic gains generated by the joint adoption of complementary innovations may influence the firm’s adoption decision. For this purpose a weighted index of intra-firm diffusion is built to investigate empirically...