Small firms are playing an ever-increasing role in innovation, driven by changes in technologies and markets. Some spin … advantages. This book explores how government policy can boost innovation by improving the environment for entrepreneurship and … entrepreneurship. In addition, country notes present statistics and policy data on SMEs, entrepreneurship and innovation for 40 …

Eco-innovation will be a key driver of industry efforts to tackle climate change and realize "green growth" in the post …-Kyoto era. Eco-innovation calls for faster introduction of breakthrough technologies and for more systemic application of … the research and analysis carried out during the first phase of the OECD Project on Sustainable Manufacturing and Eco-innovation …

Innovation has become a key factor for economic growth, but how does the process take place at the level of individual … firms? This book presents the main results of the OECD Innovation Microdata Project -- the first large-scale effort to … exploit firm-level data from innovation surveys across 20 countries in an internationally harmonised way, with a view to …