), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

entrepreneur in the innovation process. -- Innovation ; microenterprises ; SMEs ; development …Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have …

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However …, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK …

We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such … returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …

Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and … globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms’ efforts to raise … innovation, especially for firms further from the frontier, and that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and …