This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey … (CIS) to provide empirical evidences to test our argument concerning this interrelation between innovation, productivity …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …

cover all the costs, including the costs of investment and innovation, to operate in an effective way, to "balance …

articles is innovation. However, the question is whether innovation necessarily leads to growth. The aim of this research is to … investigate the relationship between high growth and innovation. Dataset for this research consists of 181 SMEs from Croatia … existence of innovation in the enterprise is not present among factors that influence growth. This research raises the question …

This paper draws on a sample of innovative Catalan firms to identify the effects of the two main sources of innovation … regression techniques. Our results suggest the different patterns attributable to the two sources of innovation as we move up …

The increasing openness of economies and the phenomenon of globalization has led to know-how and innovation becoming … innovative means that the construction of innovation is channeled through the social sphere, attributing an increasingly … generation of innovation at the firm levels. Internationalization and interaction for SMEs represent action strategies in an …

The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …