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 …

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

In the long-run, innovation performance has weakened somewhat in German small and me-dium enterprises (SMEs). In …&D). In order to remove the innovation barriers in these SMEs, public policy may play an important role. The empirical … analysis reveals that less R&D-oriented SMEs are indeed more likely to face a number of constraints in their innovation …

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 …

that they employ.In order to account for non-R&D innovation activities, we apply the STI/DUI concept as a theoretical … starting point. This distinguishes between (1) the science, technology, innovation (STI) mode with its strong emphasis on … modes of learning and innovation exist within the German SME sector: the supplier-dependent DUI group, the customer …

that they employ. In order to account for non-R&D innovation activities, we apply the STI/DUI concept as a theoretical … starting point. This distinguishes between (1) the science, technology, innovation (STI) mode with its strong emphasis on … modes of learning and innovation exist within the German SME sector: the supplier-dependent DUI group, the customer …