CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals' area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …

This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export … contributes to higher innovation outputs, which in turn translates into higher export success in later years. This relation … however only holds for certain sources of public funding and certain types of innovation output. Innovation support from the …

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 …

The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of small and medium-sized enter-prises (SMEs) to innovation … in Germany. The paper reviews the empirical literature on SMEs' innovation activities and conceptualises indicators to … identify the key dimensions of innova-tion processes and outputs. The analysis of statistical data and surveys from various …

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a … quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and … shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee headcounts is much stronger in companies that are already experiencing …

and development (R&D) - their innovation goals in the medium term. However, the shortage of skilled workers turns out to … be a hindering factor in the innovation process . By contrast, most ICT companies have not been sufficiently suc …-cessful at winning other firms to build R&D co-operations to overcome hurdles to innovation. …