they matter. We first characterize YICs in the sample of innovation active firms. We show that firms that combine newness … financial constraints, both internal and external, as an important factor hampering their innovation activities, significantly … more so than other innovation active firms. This access to finance problem is an often used motive for government …

This paper examines the diversity of linkages of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance for a … with a science linkage - which can be of various sorts - have superior innovation performance, in particular with respect …