Olsen, Jane; Lee, Boon-Chye; Hodgkinson, Ann - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2006
This paper examines the process of innovation within SMEs, focusing on a sample of firms in New South Wales, Australia … the prominent roles that they play in most economies. One way of doing so is through innovation. In this paper, we present … a more complex model of the innovation process than the traditional linear model involving R&D investment, what we term …