“Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs”, code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration … Romanian SMEs in adopting the open innovation principles. In order to reach this objective, the authors analysed the available … statistical data for the period 2002-2012 concerning the trend of the SMEs’ weight in the total innovation businesses compared to …

The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It … describes informal innovative activities and thus complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) based on research … DUI mode and how they should be measured. Based upon 81 in-depth interviews with German SMEs and regional innovation …

financial crisis 2008/2009 on their business customers’ innovation activity. Using a matched bank-firm data set for Germany, we … find that having relations with a more severely affected bank seriously hampers firms’ current innovation activities due to … initiate new product and process innovations and to reallocate human resources to innovation during the financial crisis. …

innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …

The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It … describes informal innovative activities and complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) which is based on … research and development. A common demarcation criterion between both modes of innovation is the relevance of experiencebased …

Innovation is key to boosting Australia’s productivity and inclusiveness. This paper examines the policies that create … good conditions for innovation, not only in science and technology but also wider forms, such as business-model innovation …’s numerous innovation-related SME support schemes are uncertain. Federal and state governments are taking a positive approach to …

innovation premium among large firms. A battery of tests shows that this innovation premium among small firms is explained by … that attribute higher returns to innovation to investor underreaction. We argue that an innovation premium exists among … small firms, but not large firms, because small innovators focus more on risky product innovation and rely more on …

-R&D Innovation Expenditure" and negatively to the following variables: "New Doctorate graduates", "Venture Capital", "Foreign …

The main objective of the paper is to address the question of how to foster innovation and small firm growth under … different levels of technological turbulence, flow experience, innovation and small firm growth (i.e. market share and ROI … environments in terms of the relationships of risk taking, flow at work, innovation and small firm growth. Based on a survey among …

technological innovation from the perspective of the gender of executives. Methods/Approach: A quantitative approach and cross … obtained from multi-group analysis evidence that process innovation has a strong and significant positive impact on the … innovation of products, and no significant differences were found when comparing the performance of male executives versus female …