Despite growing concern towards entrepreneurship, the number of studies directly targeting the profile of the entrepreneur involved in innovative and high-tech new ventures are still scarce. This study, based on the empirical analysis of 18 highly innovative new ventures is focused on this...

The aim of this paper is to find out the determinant factors of innovation. In order to do so, microeconomic data from a sample of 2000 Valencian firms in the year 1992 is used. Starting from Schumpeter's hypothesis on the role of firm's size in the innovation process, it is shown that small...

This paper analyses the role of firms' R&D-experience in their innovative success using a representative sample of Spanish firms for the period 1990-2002. Using count data models and within an innovation production function approach, we investigate the influence of firms' R&D-experience in the...

The literature shows contradictory results in the direction and intensity of the relation between size and innovation. This study presents the results of a metaanalytic investigation, which aims to clarify this discrepancy. The sample used was made up of 87 correlations taken from 53 empirical...