resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based …

, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation activities … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a …

Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical … evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking … into account the type of competition in the downstream market, namely price and technology. We explore this relationship …

competition and innovation-related location advantages for an SME’s decision to engage in innovation activities abroad. By linking …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. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R&D, design, production and …

, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation activities … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a …

resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based …

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

-in-differences design to causally identify the short-run impact of COVID-19 on innovation spending in 2020 and expected innovation spending … substantially reduced innovation expenditure not only in the first year of the pandemic (2020) but also in the two subsequent years …, indicating ’Long–Covid’ effects on innovation. In 2020, innovation expenditure fell by 4.7 % due to the pandemic. In 2022 …