[eng] The purpose of this study is to analyse the relationship between SMEs' innovative efforts and their performance on international markets. Results clearly identify clusters of firms on the basis of the volume of exports and their destination and demonstrates that the different dimensions of...

Small and medium enterprises have strengthened their importance during the last decades in most industrialized countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan and Canada. The province of Quebec makes no exception as firms of less than 200 employees generate a substantial portion of its...