the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

privately financed R&D and subsidyinduced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The … collaborate internationally as well as for SMEs. …

&D, using external innovation sources or by entering into cooperation agreements. SMEs without in-house R&D can yield a similar …This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small … and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating …

This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a …, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation activities … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … abroad range of manufacturing and service sectors and of which 86% are SMEs, we indeed find that increasing the share of … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher …

German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …