In Germany there is considerably less innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) than in large companies …. The government's arrangements for promoting innovation provide only a limited corrective here, not least because they are … on R&D. If the EU's target of raising innovation intensity to 3 percent of GDP is to be achieved, however, policymakers …

Europe needs more innovative companies that grow quickly and end up big. This book examines SME growth, innovation and … topics discussed include entrepreneurship and technological clusters, innovative start-ups and growth factors, and family …

. 'reassembling the social', in entrepreneurial innovation and academic entrepreneurship studies: the 'amphibious scientists …Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage … for SMEs growth / D. Lauto G. Pittino and F. Visintin -- Part I the context -- 2. Entrepreneurship and technological …