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Non-R&D, interactive learning and economic performance: Revisiting innovation in small and medium enterprises

Thomä, Jörg; Zimmermann, Volker - 2019

learning modes among innovating SMEs relate to overall company performance. Our main observation is that each learning mode is …In the present paper, various groups of innovating German SMEs are empirically identified according to their use (or …-oriented DUI group and the STI/DUI group. The corresponding findings confirm that SMEs innovate differently depending on the …

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Knowledge Protection Practices in Innovating SMEs

Thomä, Jörg; Zimmermann, Volker - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 5-6, pp. 691-717

Summary 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 achieve a better understanding of how the role perceived by innovating SMEs …-related appropriation strategy seems to be essential for many SMEs because of their informal mode of learning and innovation characterized …

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Die Auswirkungen der Coronapandemie auf die finanzielle Lage unterschiedlicher Gruppen von mittelständischen Unternehmen und deren Folgen für den Kreditzugang

Köhler-Geib, Fritzi; Zimmermann, Volker - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 90 (2021) 2, pp. 31-48

Die Coronapandemie hat sichtbare Spuren bei der Liquiditätssituation und den Eigenkapitalquotenmittelständischer Unternehmen hinterlassen. Vor dem Hintergrund einer guten Ausgangslageund insgesamt einer Stabilisierung der Lage im Krisenverlauf ist eine Überschuldung des Unternehmenssektorsin...

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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Different Groups of SMEs in Germany and Their Recovery

Zimmermann, Volker; Köhler-Geib, Fritzi - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 6, pp. 333-341

Using Germany as an example, this article examines how different groups of small andmedium-sized enterprises were impacted by and recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic.The study found that at the onset of the pandemic, turnover losses were experienced notjust by enterprises regarded as poor...

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Bestimmungsfaktoren des Innovations- und Patentierungsverhaltens von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen

Zimmermann, Volker - In: Mittelstands- und Strukturpolitik 42 (2008), pp. 51-99

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Die Bedeutung der Finanzierungsstruktur für die Durchführung von Forschung und Entwicklung bei jungen technologieintensiven Unternehmen

Müller, Elisabeth; Zimmermann, Volker - In: Mittelstands- und Strukturpolitik 41 (2008), pp. 27-52

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The impact of innovation on employment in small and medium enterprises with different growth rates

Zimmermann, Volker (contributor) - 2008

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...