goal of this study is to investigate whether there are any differences in research and development (R&D) and innovation … that established RSOs engage in R&D and innovation activities more frequently than companies whose genesis was of another … further development stages over otherwise created firms in terms of innovation outputs is related to their higher intensity of …

associated to market failures; (2) one size may not fit all in innovation policy when the type or intensity of market failure …

otherwise accrue to the entrepreneur. Stronger patent protection will therefore increase the incentive to do research and … development (R&D) and generate new knowledge. This new knowledge has a positive effect on entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth …. However, after some point, further strengthening of patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently …

In recent years, there has been an increase in empirical and theoretical work that addresses the role of innovation as … one of the main sources of firm growth. The purpose of this special issue is to strengthen the role played by innovation … applied papers observe a positive link between innovation and firm growth, the complexity of R&D activities, together with the …

innovation output plays in shaping that relationship. We apply a vector auto-regression model to Finnish firm-level data and … express the need for further research on innovation dynamics and growth of SMEs analysing the interactions between different … innovation activities. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …