We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional …

&D-oriented firms versus all others - is somewhat limited. In particular, non-R&D innovation activity should be treated as an important … engaged in non-R&D innovation grow in a less risky and costly way than R&D innovators, and that a young firm's decision … whether to engage in R&D for the purpose of innovation and growth can therefore usefully be understood as being driven by a …

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue …. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a unique … regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth …

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 …