Empirical studies shows that SMEs are characterized by budget constraints and are reluctant to invest in innovation activities such as undertaking R&D, taking out patents, and hiring highly qualified research staff. This paper suggests that SMEs’ can adopt network alliances to minimize their...

Assessing the impact of public support to innovation on R&D collaboration may require a more complex multilevel design, that describes the likely correlation present among firms characteristics within a particular sector. Using data from the 2006 edition of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS)...

The impact of freedom on economic growth has attracted significant attention from researchers and policy makers around the globe. Besides notions of economic freedom, a rapidly growing body of literature stresses the role of personal freedoms and tolerance. It is argued that tolerance is...