The report summarizes the conditions of the small and medium size enterprises (SME) sector in Georgia, identiies main … existing literature and own survey among SME stakeholders in Georgia. Georgia is a small open economy. Its structure has been …

effective innovation performance. In this paper we develop a conceptual model of direct and moderated network effects on a firm …’s innovation. We test this model on a large sample of small and medium-sized firms from a posttransitional and developed economy …. We show that absorptive capacity moderates the relationship between networks and innovation outcomes, but with some …

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 …

(Woodward et al., 2012), this working paper presents an analysis of two Sectoral Innovation Systems (Malerba, 2002) in the … above average. The software industry is a young and dynamically growing one everywhere, and Poland is no exception …. Companies in the industry tend to be young and very small. In Poland, they are very focused on the domestic market and play the …

This study surveys the current state of affairs in Poland with regard to the development of knowledge …&D) intensively. We place KIE in Poland in the larger institutional context, outlining the key features of the country's National … Innovation System, and then focus on KIE itself. Our findings are perhaps more optimistic than many previous studies of knowledge …

dissemination of innovations in regions via spillover effect (NESTA Business growth and innovation, 2009). Fast-growing companies … may contribute more than 50% to GDP growth (Europe INNOVA Gazelles Innovation Panel, 2008). There are several works, that … exogenous factors (Delmar, Davidsson, Gartner, 2003). In our work we assume that regional innovation performance (as a share of …