Using the 2007 Mannheim innovation survey, we investigate whether family firms are more financially constrained than … other firms and how this affects both innovation input as well as innovation outcomes such as market and firm novelties or … are more likely to be constrained and have, on average, lower innovation input. Surprisingly, however, this doesnot reduce …

procurement, particularly when mediated by the demand-pull effect, may lower a company’s funding constraints for innovation. We …