leveraging production facilities in emerging economies. The innovation capacity of many firms is however hampered by a number of … barriers to innovation, e.g. resource constraints. They hinder the firm’s capacity to invent and successfully commercialize new …

Securing access to “lead markets” is generally regarded as a key driver for the increasing globalization of innovation … chance of uncertainty reduction for in the innovation process of firms. Lead markets are generally defined in terms of …

This paper provides an audit of Slovenian initiatives for promoting innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises … of knowledge transfer and innovation performance in Slovenia, which shows that the country has managed to sustain a … and value-added in high technology manufacturing compared to the EU average. However, innovation among SMEs is relatively …

transnational innovation processes. …

showthat one unique set of legal rules can foster innovation and increase total R&D expendituresin some industries and be …

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …