commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were … innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

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 aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …

This article investigates how access to external financing for innovation activities is affected by firm … capital to fund innovation projects. Yet, there is little known about how different combinations of these characteristics … their access to external innovation finance. In line with earlier research we find that indeed the type of innovation …

they matter. We first characterize YICs in the sample of innovation active firms. We show that firms that combine newness … financial constraints, both internal and external, as an important factor hampering their innovation activities, significantly … more so than other innovation active firms. This access to finance problem is an often used motive for government …

Numerous studies have discussed that even if fundamental for innovation and economic growth, SMEs are often financially … applying to SMEs. -- venture capital ; private equity ; innovation ; certification effect ; SMEs …

This study investigates the relationship between stock liquidity and frm innovation for publicly traded growing small … and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China using both innovation input and output. We collected samples of 785 SMEs from … demonstrate a signifcant positive relationship between stock liquidity and both innovation input, as measured by R&D investments …