exogenous technological change but by repeatedly leapfrogging their competitors through product and process innovation. This … shifts the focus from the mechanical production process to the collaborative innovation process, which requires social …

quantifies the effect of binding financial constraints on the innovation propensity of Italian companies. Once provided a rich … baseline specification for innovation, I analyze the impact of financial constraints by exploiting a survey-based direct … features. My results show firms that are more likely to suffer from financial problems to have a probability of innovation that …

The authors demonstrate a problem of innovation support by business support institutions (BSIs) operating in the market … sources of financing. The situation requires further research on the causes of such a low utilisation of BSIs’ innovation …

The aim of the study is to analyze the actual demand of SMEs from the Baltic Sea region for innovation support. The … results of the conducted study can help formulate recommendations designed to increase innovation and competitiveness of SMEs … in the Baltic Sea Region in the future. Research activities of this study include: the evaluation of innovation level of …

innovation in business has been done …

This paper addresses the question how knowledge is used to benefit the economic development of Singapore and Malaysia …

criminal activities in Malaysia for the period 1973-2003. Real gross national product was used as proxy for economic conditions … in Malaysia. Our results indicate that murder, armed robbery, rape, assault, daylight burglary and motorcycle theft …