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 …

This paper examines recent contributions on innovation protection practices in small and medium enterprises (SMEs …

building ; innovation ; industrial/technology policies …

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 …

obstacles to innovation primarily in the non-financial sphere, namely the supply of skilled personnel, market regulation and … conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well …-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific programs providing grants to R&D and innovation projects. Different types of SMEs …