process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …

market is quantitatively important for mechanization and productivity since it provides a workaround for other market …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … the variation in outcomes - sales, profits and labor productivity and TFP - in microenterprises as in larger enterprises …

We analyze how increased access to financing affects firm total factor productivity (TFP) by exploiting a natural …

structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Elke Maria Schmidt - Innovation im Mittelstand: Theoretische und empirische Aspekte; Karl Lichtblau …

innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …