performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We evaluate the effectiveness of regional, national and European funding … a significant positive effect on SMEs' export performance. For funding programs run by regional authorities, we find … similar though relatively smaller impacts on both innovation output and exporting. Bottom-up funding at the national level …

innovations. Small-sized firms experience stronger productivity effects. Productivity gains grow with scale among SMEs, but large …

standard case of technology transfer. We study the characteristics of the matching process, that makes this exchange in …

nonparametric matching approach is applied to identify an appropriate control group. For neither of the five incubator locations we …

We develop a two-sided matching model to analyze collaboration between heterogeneous academics and firms. We predict a … positive assortative matching in terms of both scientific ability and affinity for type of research, but negative assortative …

our hypothesis by comparing measures of innovativeness. Based on matching (selectivity on observable covariates) in a …