innovation in terms of industrial dynamics and company growth. From the 102 abstracts sub-mitted in response to the initial call … posters were displayed. The conference was structured along three thematic strands: IV. R&D and innovation: Sources and … constraints at company level V. Industrial dynamics & the role of R&D and innovation for Europe's competitiveness VI. New avenues …

This report assesses what is new about Asian growth, focusing primarily on the ‘external’ dynamics of change (the roles … of inter-country growth and networks, trade and FDI – i.e. the context of globalization). …

from macro and micro perspectives, and examine the spatial consequences of ICT diffusion. We focus on regional innovation …

The importance of SMEs in Europe’s innovation process can be seen in both the academic and the political arena. Adopted … of SMEs in the EU economy and was the first to put in place a comprehensive SME policy framework for the EU and its … Member States. One of its main aims is to promote growth among SMEs by helping them to tackle problems that hamper their …

This report discusses business R&D in SMEs in the light of a systematic review of publicly available information on … industrial R&D, its common trends and related emerging issues. A number of factors towards better understanding of SME … trajectories, specifics in terms of their R&D activities, and the attendant main challenges of SMEs are thus examined along their …

comparison to the past, if a selection of top R&D-investing SMEs were assumed to be on a fast growth track while the top R …, building there from an unbalanced panel. Scenarios were developed by distinguishing SMEs' assumed growth paths vs. that of …&D-investing large-scale companies continue to grow as before. The background of this research objective is the emerging focus on SMEs …

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 … help to facilitate economic growth and job creation …

innovation leads to job losses and wage growth has a negative effect that is lower than in other industries. Business services … role of innovation, demand, wages and the composition of employment by professional groups. A model is developed and an …