manufacturing. Results from our structural models indicate that KIS firms benefit from innovation activities through increased labor … productivity with highly skilled employees being similarly important compared to R&D for creating innovation output in microfirms … firms having a higher probability of initiating innovation activities and of successfully turning knowledge into innovation …

innovation through such intangible resources, namely, organizational citizenship behavior, solidarity, and cooperation … notion that organizational psychological capital positively influences creative innovation of SMEs and thus performance …

This essay uses Edmund Phelps’ new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change … (Phelps <CitationRef CitationID="CR67">2013</CitationRef>) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book … niggardly evaluation of European innovation, and the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the claim that the rate of …

There are several studies in entrepreneurship investigating determinants of innovation outcomes in SMEs. Although … determinant of innovation. We use theoretical logics of social cognitive theory and innovation theory to develop a conceptual … model of entrepreneur’s creativity, self-efficacy, and innovation outcomes. The model is then tested on a large sample of …

to support process and product innovation activities. Although employment is not usually the main objective of these … important assumption. Using a combination of fixed effects and matching, we find that both process and product innovation … support increased employment and wages, with a higher impact on employment. In addition, we find that product innovation …

that innovation per se is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for regional economic development. Copyright Springer …

, entrepreneurial employee activity is more prevalent than independent entrepreneurial activity. Innovation indicators are positively …

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 …