the main firm-level drivers of SME productivity, i.e. factors internal to the firm that directly affect SME performance …, workforce skills and business linkages in enhancing SME productivity. The paper is structured as follows. First, it presents … SME productivity, on the one hand, and managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages, on the other, which has …

-cognitive competences such as resilience, creativity, and empathy - as well as those noncognitive competences associated with social …-emotional learning and active citizenship - have a positive impact on well-being and also performance. This paper takes a closer look at …-cognitive competences as a broader topic; then resilience, creativity, and active citizenship as more specific sub-topics. …

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 …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more … of introducing product/process innovations, but that the ensuing economic performance is rather associated to the role of …

skills in the innovation process in developed economies. It draws on multiple sources including the innovation studies … specific types of innovation activities. …