foster innovation activities in small enterprises? Do innovators create more jobs? We use a large set of microenterprises … training is found to have a strong effect on the innovation activity. However, firms owned by female and old entrepreneurs are … less likely to get involved in innovation. In an extended model of firm growth determinants that includes innovation …

size composition of firms changes, how innovation patterns (patents) change, as well as locational decisions of firms (NJ … observation, and that the growth advantage of small pharma firms increases after the 1980's as the process of innovation becomes … more guided and scale intensive and as small firm innovation becomes more persistent. Furthermore, at the end of the 1970's …

differences in industry, location, legal status, size, age, credit rating, export and innovation behaviour, the findings (i …, yet not on innovation output. …

The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms …

We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only … returns to innovation are highly skewed and that growth rates distributions are heavy-tailed, it may be misleading to use … that innovation is of crucial importance for a handful of superstar fast-growth firms. We also discuss policy implications …

A puzzling evidence stemming from the applied research on growth and innovation is that successful innovations do not … between innovation and sales growth rates. Exploiting a unique and original database comprising detailed information on …