, 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 …

manufacturing SMEs. By focussing on self-reported innovation the study achieves a wider coverage of the effects of SME innovation …. Combining these two results and comparing the outlays on SME innovation policy with the estimated effects suggests that policy …This paper assesses UK innovation policy impact on a large, population weighted, sample of both service and …

One of the main objectives of the new European research and innovation policy agenda is to favour the positive … presents a literature review on the economics of research, innovation and competitiveness, focusing on the evidence available … regarding the determinants for company creation and growth and the role played by Research, Development (R&D) and innovation …

Innovation processes consist of interactive learning mechanisms that combine different knowledge sources. Using a set … of 72 exploratory interviews with small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and regional innovation consultants, this … paper analyzes the combination of STI (science-technology -innovation) and DUI (innovation based on learning …

panel data count model with fixed effects are suggestive of direct innovation effects due to individual cooperation events …