This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting … from a knowledge-based view, the aim is to achive a better understanding of how the role perceived by innovating SMEs of … such as secrecy or lead time advantage are explored. This is because different knowledge protection practices must not only …

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a … quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and … shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee headcounts is much stronger in companies that are already experiencing …

In the long-run, innovation performance has weakened somewhat in German small and me-dium enterprises (SMEs). In …&D). In order to remove the innovation barriers in these SMEs, public policy may play an important role. The empirical … analysis reveals that less R&D-oriented SMEs are indeed more likely to face a number of constraints in their innovation …

Summary This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises … carried out to analyse the data. This method allows one to examine the effects of innovation at any desired point on the … relationship between innovation and employment growth than the standard method of viewing deviations in the average effect. The key …

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a … quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and … shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee headcounts is much stronger in companies that are already experiencing …