trust among people in regions on innovation using two distinct data sets. The first one contains firm-level data and is used … to analyze how trust affects firm-level innovation in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The second data set is … used to analyze the trust-innovation relationship within regions. It allows us to capture innovation in the form of patents …

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 …

The paper aims to assess how public support for innovation activities influences the economic performance of Czech … their innovation activities. The analysis was performed on the case of the Innovation Program, which was co-financed by the … European Regional Development Fund. The Innovation Program is the largest Czech program for innovation support and mainly …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

aimed at estimating the innovation gap between Poland and the European Union countries on the basis of the Summary … Innovation Index (SII), which was developed by the European Commission within the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) in the … years 2010-2018. It reviewed the literature on the innovativeness of economies and the innovation gap. Descriptive analysis …

, can be based on creation of an innovation-friendly environment. As our research has shown, it is important to consider …

The main objective of the paper is to address the question of how to foster innovation and small firm growth under … different levels of technological turbulence, flow experience, innovation and small firm growth (i.e. market share and ROI … environments in terms of the relationships of risk taking, flow at work, innovation and small firm growth. Based on a survey among …

We study the effect of analyst coverage on firms' innovation strategy and outcome. By considering three different … negative effect becomes not significant when firms' in-house R&D spending and external innovation channels are taken into … account. We find that more financial analysts encourage firms to make more efficient investments related to innovation, which …

, 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 …

This article tests the hypothesis that entrepreneurs' confidence in innovation has a positive effect on their … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM. An organizational innovation confidence index is constructed from three questions … their daily work, and use new products and services that will improve their working life. Innovation is measured by two …