the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting …-related appropriation strategy seems to be essential for many SMEs because of their informal mode of learning and innovation characterized …

In the long-run, innovation performance has weakened somewhat in German small and me-dium enterprises (SMEs). In …&D). In order to remove the innovation barriers in these SMEs, public policy may play an important role. The empirical … analysis reveals that less R&D-oriented SMEs are indeed more likely to face a number of constraints in their innovation …