. Among others, countries like the UK, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark established science and innovation … diplomacy agencies. We comparatively examine three cases: The UK's Science and Innovation Network, the Swiss SWISSNEX, and the … Danish Innovation Centre Denmark. We look for similarities and dissimilarities in terms of organisational setup, locations …

This paper analyzes the effect of different cooperation forms on innovation in small and medium enterprises in Belgium …, Germany, Portugal and Spain using Community Innovation Survey data from 2008. We find that vertical cooperation and knowledge … positive effect of horizontal cooperation on sales due to product innovation only in Germany. …

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 …

Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have … empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have … evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS data. This paper analyses the differences between federal, semi-federal and …

The importance of SMEs in Europe's innovation process can be seen in both the academic and the political arena. Adopted … to their inputs into the innovation process. In particular, we draw attention to SMEs that contribute the most to the …

' innovation performance. In addition, it specifically analyses whether a firm's size affects the amount spent on design and the … return in terms of innovation output to this activity. In doing so, it partly compensates for the lack of empirical evidence …

in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains … in the efficiency of innovation activities can be found. This variation is in correspondence with a center … differences in efficiency of regional innovation systems can be explained by differences in R&D-cooperation behavior. …