an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …

The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …

Although small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) involvement in the innovation process is a long standing issue and … recently has resurged in the relevant literature, building and sustaining innovation is a hard and non linear work. The purpose … problematic relationship between Greek and Croatian firms and their involvement to innovation. Lithuanian firms, however, seem to …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …

This study addresses the relationship between product innovation and the demand and supply of trade credit. Theoretical … as well as empirical studies are used to derive the hypothesis of a positive link between product innovation and trade …. Basically the estimation results confirm that introducing a product innovation is positively related with demand and provision …

This paper examines the bidirectional causality between innovation and internationalization in the context of … persistence in process and product innovations and internationalization decisions. Furthermore, we find that, for non-micro firms …, past internationalization has a positive effect on process innovation, but past process innovation does not have a …