The exchange of knowledge between science and industry has been a focus of innovation research and policy for many decades. New developments in the way technologies are generated, shared, and transferred into new products, services, and business models are currently re-emphasising...

Established theories in international business come to different conclusions when specifically applied to the analysis of the international activities of start-up companies in high-technology industries. Using a new dataset of 495 British and German start-ups operating in high-technology...

COVID-19 placed a special role to fiscal policy in rescuing companies short of liquidity from insolvency. In the first months of the crisis, SMEs as the backbone of Europe's real economy benefited from large and mainly indiscriminate aid measures. Avoiding business failures in a whatever it...

In Deutschland sind – wie in fast allen Industrieländern – mehr als 99 % aller Unternehmendem Mittelstand (bzw. den kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen, KMU) zuzurechnen. Sie produzierenknapp die Hälfte der Bruttowertschöpfung des Unternehmenssektors. Zentralesqualitatives Merkmal ist die...