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 …

"European Innovation Champions" successfully absorbed and reacted to the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Five different … European Innovation Champions during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We distill 10 management principles representing key … actions and decisions that allowed the European Innovation Champions to manage each paradox. This report provides policymakers …

MSMEs find it challenging to undertake innovation activities given their limited resources and capabilities. Studies on … innovation in MSMEs have identified internal and external factors that affect innovation capabilities and activities, one of … been used by governments to promote innovation especially in MSMEs. Using the 2015 Survey of Innovation Activities of …

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 …