This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies …

This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) failures triggered by …

such an identity. It shows the results of surveys in 2020, 2021 and 2022 made in all regions of Spain, the UK, France …, Italy, and Germany. The Spanish autonomous communities and cities have been surveyed in all the mentioned years, Italian … regions and the regions of the UK in 2021 and 2022 and the German Länder and French regions in 2022. The results show that …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

Empresas, the Spanish innovation survey conducted annually by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE). The main …

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …