This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …

results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms … framework. -- filing fees ; imitation ; innovation ; probabilistic patent rights ; R&D ; simultaneous innovation ; trade secrets …

This paper assesses UK innovation policy impact on a large, population weighted, sample of both service and … manufacturing SMEs. By focussing on self-reported innovation the study achieves a wider coverage of the effects of SME innovation … support for innovation were more likely to innovate than unsupported comparable enterprises. Innovating enterprises are shown …

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 …

This study addresses the relationship between product innovation and the demand and supply of trade credit. Theoretical … as well as empirical studies are used to derive the hypothesis of a positive link between product innovation and trade …. Basically the estimation results confirm that introducing a product innovation is positively related with demand and provision …

The increasing openness of economies and the phenomenon of globalization has led to know-how and innovation becoming … innovative means that the construction of innovation is channeled through the social sphere, attributing an increasingly … generation of innovation at the firm levels. Internationalization and interaction for SMEs represent action strategies in an …