identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size …

and medium-sized enterprise (SME) adoption of social media technologies – and, in particular, how these technologies can …

to become large firms and (global) leading R&D investors. Accordingly, a broad R&D and innovation (policy) strategy is … innovation-intensity across firm-sized classes. …

This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the … technological characteristics a firm has. In general, internal R&D leads to product innovation, while machinery acquisition leads to …

of technological competitiveness (based on innovation in products and markets) or cost competitiveness (relying on … innovation in processes and machinery) and their impact on economic performances. We propose models for the determinants of … Pavitt classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out …

centred on the provision of assistance to Member States who joined in 2004, 2007 and 2013 in using innovation funding under … ESIFs via the early and effective implementation of RIS3 with the aim of closing the innovation gap and promote scientific …

During the past years, the role of ICT as key driver and enabler of innovation has been widely recognized. The advent … of this, a final aim for policy makers is to develop methodologies and tools to measure the performance of ICT innovation … in Europe. This report analyses the ICT component within the newly released Innovation output indicator and provide …

The present document provides an overview of the innovation capacity of the European transport sectors. The analysis … addresses transport-related innovation from three different angles. It identifies the drivers and barriers to innovation for the … between them in order to detect shortcomings in the current institutional set-up of transport innovation. The analysis finds …