This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … CIS3 data on 3,247 innovative firms and applying several Knowledge Production Functions. It is confirmed that different … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the …

of technological competitiveness (based on innovation in products and markets) or cost competitiveness (relying on … innovation in processes and machinery) and their impact on economic performances. We propose models for the determinants of … classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out by …

The importance of SMEs in Europe's innovation process can be seen in both the academic and the political arena. Adopted … to their inputs into the innovation process. In particular, we draw attention to SMEs that contribute the most to the …

demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

Innovation in the European Union remains weak according to a number of key "input" indicators, especially R …'s innovation gap relative to the US results from an inappropriate industrial structure in which new firms do not play a significant … role, especially in new high-tech sectors. This view of a structural EU innovation deficit has many supporters. But it has …

identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size …

One of the main objectives of the new European research and innovation policy agenda is to favour the positive … presents a literature review on the economics of research, innovation and competitiveness, focusing on the evidence available … regarding the determinants for company creation and growth and the role played by Research, Development (R&D) and innovation …

' innovation performance. In addition, it specifically analyses whether a firm's size affects the amount spent on design and the … return in terms of innovation output to this activity. In doing so, it partly compensates for the lack of empirical evidence …