Evaluation nutzt dabei zuerst Daten des Mannheimer Innovation Panel für die Untersuchung in Deutschland und später Daten der … Community Innovation Survey für die Untersuchung in Europa. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die drei verschiedenen Ebenen der … Ländern erreicht dabei KMU als Unternehmen mit Problemen bei der Innovationstätigkeit signifikant besser als andere Ebenen …

Information is a critical resource in innovation processes. External information can be helpful in innovation processes … to complete them successfully. SMEs in particular are therefore advised to draw on consulting in innovation processes, as … view, the involvement of intermediaries in the innovation process is accompanied by the risk of losing specific knowledge …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative …

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 …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …