Private businesses’ nominal value added in Greece has fallen by 38 percent over the last ten years. Micro firms were … unaddressed. Greece cannot achieve its urgently needed strong and sustainable economic growth without these reforms. When the … third economic adjustment program for Greece ends in August, so will external reform pressure. It remains an open question …

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 … questionnaire survey addressed to a sample of 336 firms located in Greece, Croatia, and Lithuania. Findings suggest a somewhat …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …