This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

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 …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

technology and innovation have created a plethora of new opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper …

demands constant market analyses as well as flexibility and organisationalefficiency. Theorising and modelling of innovation …

In this paper we report empirical evidence from a mixed methods approach to investigating the drivers of innovation in … regarding their innovation and competition experiences. Our results from both forms of evidence-gathering suggest that in a … small and isolated local market such as New Zealand, smallness in terms of firm size may not be an advantage for innovation …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

positively related to innovation activity. More importantly, this relationship depends on the mode of innovation, where companies …