primarily promotes the innovation activities of very small firms by stimulating knowledge diffusion in regional innovation …' participation in initial VET and their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models show that the impact of … VET activity on innovation is indeed ambiguous. Overall, as expected, participation in initial VET has virtually no effect …

' participation in initial VET on their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models and instrumental variable … regressions with entropy balancing show that the impact of VET activity on innovation is more ambiguous than postulated. Overall …, the participation in initial VET has virtually no effect on product innovation and radical novelties. For the total …

' participation in initial VET and their innovation outcomes. Our results show that the direct effects of initial VET on technological … innovation in small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are on average quite weak. If at all, a training firm's initial VET … activities are associated with production innovation activities and not with process innovation. Larger effects can only be …

a positive impact on firm-level innovation, empirical evidence on the subject remains scarce. This study exploits … initial VET and their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models and entropy balancing show that the … relationship between VET activity and innovation are more ambiguous than often postulated. Overall, the participation in initial …

overcome a number of knowledge and market barriers to innovation. The paper concludes with implications for policy and research. … formal learning of science and technology (i.e. the Science, Technology and Innovation – STI – mode). To more deeply assess … the practical relevance of this grouping for innovation policy, it is subsequently examined how a firm’s learning mode …

positively related to innovation activity. More importantly, this relationship depends on the mode of innovation, where companies … owners affect whether or not absorptive capacity can mediate between external knowledge and firm-level innovativeness. …

. Based on a conceptual framework on the relationship between knowledge bases and innovation modes in the field of regional …The promotion of innovation-driven development in lagging regions is currently on the regional policy agenda, so a … sound understanding of how learning and innovation can be successful under the conditions there is crucial. In this context …

Digitalization is one of the main trends affecting firm-level innovation today. In this context, a better understanding … of the multidimensional relationship between digital technologies, competences and firm-level innovation is necessary …. For this purpose, this paper examines the role of digital transformation in the context of innovation activities of small …

and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are successful in innovation without research and development (R&D) efforts. In this … DUI-based innovation in less R&D-intensive SMEs. That is, companies operating largely under the DUI mode seem to benefit …

&D-oriented firms versus all others - is somewhat limited. In particular, non-R&D innovation activity should be treated as an important … engaged in non-R&D innovation grow in a less risky and costly way than R&D innovators, and that a young firm's decision … whether to engage in R&D for the purpose of innovation and growth can therefore usefully be understood as being driven by a …