We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative … medium sized enterprises has an effect on regional innovative capacity. We therefore combine patent data with data from the …