empirical results provided an affirmative response to the question raised in this paper: "Does innovation mediate good firm …

This paper analyzes the effect of different cooperation forms on innovation in small and medium enterprises in Belgium …, Germany, Portugal and Spain using Community Innovation Survey data from 2008. We find that vertical cooperation and knowledge … positive effect of horizontal cooperation on sales due to product innovation only in Germany. …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

trust among people in regions on innovation using two distinct data sets. The first one contains firm-level data and is used … to analyze how trust affects firm-level innovation in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The second data set is … used to analyze the trust-innovation relationship within regions. It allows us to capture innovation in the form of patents …