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The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in rural regions across a number of OECD geographies. It argues that SME creation is especially important for rural economic development and identified lessons for national level...
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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 …
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"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 …
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identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size …
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One of the main objectives of the new European research and innovation policy agenda is to favour the positive … presents a literature review on the economics of research, innovation and competitiveness, focusing on the evidence available … regarding the determinants for company creation and growth and the role played by Research, Development (R&D) and innovation …
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' innovation performance. In addition, it specifically analyses whether a firm's size affects the amount spent on design and the … return in terms of innovation output to this activity. In doing so, it partly compensates for the lack of empirical evidence …
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The document sets out how intangible assets can be relevant for SMEs to obtain external funding; the challenges and opportunities in this area; and the rationale for policy intervention. It provides some policy trends from a selected group of countries and concludes with some issues to be...
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