innovation within the small firm population. Forty percent of small businesses report introducing new or improved products …, processes or organizational forms. Among these businesses, product innovation dominates over process or organizational change. A … majority of these establishments reveal an ongoing commitment to innovation programs by introducing innovations on a regular …

This paper describes the evidence that several Statistics Canada studies have developed on the importance of innovation … to growth and the need for highly skilled workers in the innovation process. Rather than focusing on broad industry … frequently distinguishes faster from slower growing firms is innovation. Innovators in turn place greater emphasis on training …

Using the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS-2) for the Netherlands, we analyse the input and output stages of the … innovation process and the links between the innovation process and overall economic performance. We investigate the existence of … feedback links running from past economic performance to the input and the output stage of the innovation process and compare …

and public policy discussions - increasingly on issues of globalisation, innovation and 'competitiveness'. These issues …

Construction firms are being challenged to be more adept at successful innovation to better meet client needs and to … industry signifies the importance for this body of firms to improve their innovation performance if the performance of the … industry as a whole is to move forward. The literature on innovation in small construction firms is synthesized and structured …