This paper assesses the role of relationship lending in explaining simultaneously the innovation activity of Small and … SME's increased propensity to introduce product innovation. We further discuss the financial and non-financial channels …

transmission. We first provide a theoretical model in which banks' technological innovation relaxes firms' earning-based borrowing … construct a patent-based measurement of bank-level technological innovation, which can specify the nature of technology and tell …

transmission. We first provide a theoretical model in which banks' technological innovation relaxes firms’ earning-based borrowing … construct a patent-based measurement of bank-level technological innovation, which can specify the nature of technology and tell …