a significant positive effect on SMEs' export performance. For funding programs run by regional authorities, we find …This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export … performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We evaluate the effectiveness of regional, national and European funding …

. This process is then assumed to follow a matching of equals among equals. Using rich data from Germany and Denmark we fully … confirm a matching on qualification levels for high-skilled employees, partially for medium-skilled employees but not for low …

virtually the same in all industries and geographic regions. Using both probit regression and propensity score matching models … government or banks can not precisely predict which firm will actually turn into a gazelle. -- SME ; firm growth ; job creates …