appear to be vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between small and large firms …, and between the firms that operate in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in small firms benefits from the … incentive for innovation among the sampled companies seems to be the ownership of a firm's stocks by employees and/or managers …

&D) strategies using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data on the Dutch manufacturing sector. The focus of the research is whether M …&A affect corporate innovation strategies, favouring in-house R&D and innovation expenses versus external technological sourcing …. The results show that M&A activities have a positive and significant impact on innovation investments by firms, and …