industries. The same pattern shows up in the three Dutch Community Innovation Surveys. …

so as to explain employment growth of a sample of Uruguayan SMEs, during 2003-2007, period of strong economic expansion …. Also, that regional and sectorial characteristics influence the ability of SMEs to surmount barriers to growth. Finally …

Innovation performance seems to rely on efficiently integrating and extending different pieces of various types of … sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance drivers. Thus, context-led views such as the innovative milieux approach …, innovation systems literature and the knowledge spillover view have tended to focus on diverse, informal and location …

This paper presents an extended model of cumulative growth in which the effects of innovation and catching-up are … considered. The effect of innovation adds another source of cumulative growth to that of the traditional models and allows for …-Kaldor mechanism, and the induced effect of innovation on export performance, are important cumulative forces that interact with the …

regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between …

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

In this paper we empirically analyze the effects of collaboration in innovation with universities on the firm …'s innovative performance. Using data from the Technological Innovation Panel dataset (PITEC for its acronym in Spanish) we have …

choice. When applying the estimator to innovation decisions data of German firms, we find evidence for the existence of …