is based on German CIS data and a supplemental telephone survey. Using a nearest-neighbour matching approach we find that …

and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating … successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a particular challenge for SMEs due to high risk exposure, high fixed costs …, high minimum investment and severe financial constraints. SMEs may thus opt for refraining from R&D and relying more on …

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …

Government R&D grants for SMEs have risen to three trillion Korean won a year, placing Korea second among OECD nations …

In the present paper, various groups of innovating German SMEs are empirically identified according to their use (or …-oriented DUI group and the STI/DUI group. The corresponding findings confirm that SMEs innovate differently depending on the … learning modes among innovating SMEs relate to overall company performance. Our main observation is that each learning mode is …

more important role in the decision to start exporting, while the decision for process innovation may be triggered by … success- ful exporting. This suggests that the causality between innovation and exporting may run from product innovation to … exporting and conesequently from exporting to process innovation and reverse productivity improvements. Using detailed mi …

This paper investigates how exporting affects firm innovation. We embed innovation into a firm heterogeneity model with … (2003) method of estimating firm productivity and matching econometrics to control for endogeneity. The results show, on … more than 33%, and are 4% more likely to engage in R&D activity. In addition, we find exporting to have a smaller impact on …