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

structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …

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 …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

Counterfeiting activities target companies in various sectors, including digital technology companies, defined as … companies that produce and/or commercialize at least one physical product that incorporates a digital technology, excluding the … innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual …

One of the main objectives of the new European research and innovation policy agenda is to favour the positive … presents a literature review on the economics of research, innovation and competitiveness, focusing on the evidence available … regarding the determinants for company creation and growth and the role played by Research, Development (R&D) and innovation …

-innovators and of firms pursuing relatively simple innovation strategies, centered around the acquisition of embodied technology. For …This paper provides first empirical evidence of the joint effects that innovation strategies and human resource … companies in the very recent years, it shows that investing in technology and implementing performance-based pay policies are …