SME database AMADEUS, which includes ten European countries. First, we apply probit models to investigate whether the …

procurement, particularly when mediated by the demand-pull effect, may lower a company’s funding constraints for innovation. We …

was based on the investment-cash flow equation, more precisely the adjusted ECM model adapted to the SME sector. The … innovation activity. The research was conducted on a sample of 403 firms, including large companies. The modified methodology for …, contrary to non-innovative SMEs and large enterprises, both the innovators and those with low innovation potential. Based on …

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. …