key element for companies in a country or region in general, and its small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in … years, structural logistics problems persist, creating obstacles to exports for firms in the region, particularly SMEs. This …. Moreover, on the basis of case studies the region, the paper analyzes what measures can be taken by SMEs to improve their …

This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … be on ensuring that incentives arising from government subsidies are targeted on actual market failures. The very high … granting programmes, mainly geared to SMEs, should be streamlined for better government-business collaboration. The large …

We study whether firms’ actual use of R&D subsidies and tax incentives is correlated with financing constraints … of both policies by SMEs and by large firms and find significant differences both across instruments and across firm size …. For SMEs, financing constraints are negatively correlated with the use of tax of credits, while they are positively …

test whether the policy design aiming at incentivizing (international) collaboration and R&D in SMEs achieves input as well … as output additionality. Our results show that the targeted public subsidies trigger R&D spending, especially so in … internationally collaborating SMEs. We further evaluate the different impact of privately financed and publicly-induced R&D investment …

the desired objectives on input as well as output additionality. Our results show that the targeted R&D subsidies …&D investments trigger significant output effects, we find that the effect of subsidy-induced R&D investment is higher for firms that … collaborate internationally as well as for SMEs. …

test whether the policy design aiming at incentivizing (international) collaboration and R&D in SMEs achieves input as well … as output additionality. Our results show that the targeted public subsidies trigger R&D spending, especially so in … internationally collaborating SMEs. We further evaluate the different impact of privately financed and publicly induced R&D investment …

the desired objectives on input as well as output additionality. Our results show that the targeted R&D subsidies … privately financed R&D and subsidy-induced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The …&D investments trigger significant output effects, we find that the effect of subsidy-induced R&D investment is higher for firms that …

of the electronics industry, the impact of subsidies on competitiveness, and the international division of labour …