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R&D Investment and Financing Constraints of Small and Medium-Sized Firms

Hottenrott, Hanna - 2013

This study tests for financial constraints on Ramp;D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating index. Our models show that internal constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for Ramp;D...

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Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...

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(International) R&D collaboration and SMEs : the effectiveness of targeted public R&D support schemes

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2012

privately financed R&D and subsidyinduced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The … collaborate internationally as well as for SMEs. -- Innovation Policy ; Subsidies ; R&D ; SMEs ; International Collaboration … ; Treatment Effects ; Innovation Performance …

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Financial constraints and public funding for eco-innovation : empirical evidence on European SMEs

Cecere, Grazia; Corrocher, Nicoletta; Mancusi, Maria Luisa - 2016

Financial constraints have an important impact on the development of eco-innovations, but their effect varies according to the type of funds taken into account. This article studies the impact of the lack of funds on the development of eco-innovations, distinguishing between internal, external...

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Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers : Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs

Rammer, Christian; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small … innovation management tools in order to achieve innovation success. We analyse whether such a strategy can pay off. Based on data … from the German CIS we find that R&D activities are a main driver for innovation success if combined with external R …

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On Young Highly Innovative Companies : Why They Matter and How (Not) to Policy Support Them

Schneider, Cédric - 2013

they matter. We first characterize YICs in the sample of innovation active firms. We show that firms that combine newness … financial constraints, both internal and external, as an important factor hampering their innovation activities, significantly … more so than other innovation active firms. This access to finance problem is an often used motive for government …

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Exploiting Knowledge : The Importance of Regional Allegiance and Territorial Loyalty in Implementing a Regional Small Business Innovation System

Vass, Laurie Thomas - 2015

In his recent discussion of regional innovation systems (RIS), Philip Cooke outlines the two starkly different … interpretations of regional innovation systems. (Regional Innovation Systems, Asymmetric Knowledge and the Legacies of Learning, Draft … 2007). He notes in his review, "Clearly, there are two kinds of regional innovation occurring in these examples. The first …

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