Thomä, Jörg; Zimmermann, Volker - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 5-6, pp. 691-717
Summary This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By … starting from a knowledge-based view the aim is to achieve a better understanding of how the role perceived by innovating SMEs …-related appropriation strategy seems to be essential for many SMEs because of their informal mode of learning and innovation characterized …
