the relation between the introduction of innovation and subsequent firm growth in terms of sales. Recent contributions … examining the returns to innovation on firm performance have stressed the need of going beyond the analysis of the "average … adopt quantile treatment effects (QTE) which allow to estimate the effect of the introduction of innovation by comparing …

innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … and estimated econometrically five equations: one for product innovation, one for process innovation and three equations … 'soft' ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative … firm database of Creditreform, containing information on the governance structure of regional operating enterprises. Using …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative … firm database of Creditreform, containing information on the governance structure of regional operating enterprises. Using …

The paper aims to assess how public support for innovation activities influences the economic performance of Czech … their innovation activities. The analysis was performed on the case of the Innovation Program, which was co-financed by the … European Regional Development Fund. The Innovation Program is the largest Czech program for innovation support and mainly …

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation …) with balance sheet information. Our evidence documents that credit constrained firms display an incentive to improve their … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and …

The main objective of the paper is to address the question of how to foster innovation and small firm growth under … different levels of technological turbulence, flow experience, innovation and small firm growth (i.e. market share and ROI … environments in terms of the relationships of risk taking, flow at work, innovation and small firm growth. Based on a survey among …

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