investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper …

This paper examines the outsourcing of research and development and of innovation activities in small and medium … outsourcing R&D and innovation activities in SMEs, based on a survey among Slovenian companies in the manufacturing and service … crucial to manage them properly. As SMEs generally lack internal resources to perform R&D and innovation activities internally …