Policies for stimulating technological development and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises can be divided into three groups. Supply-side policies aim at increasing firms' incentives to invest in innovation by reducing costs. Demand-side policies are public actions to induce...

Back in early 1990's developed countries have started to use systematic stimulations of their economies technological development, which resulted in issuance of variety of national, regional and sectorial tailor made methodologies and approaches. Nevertheless, none of these are yet suitable for...

This study has analyzed the effect of cooperation with customers on firms’ innovation activities. This issue is particularly novel and important as customers provide information that will be very useful to generate new products and to make the innovation process more efficient. This paper...

This research, which was made within the category of a multiple case study, has as an objectiveto contribute to the understanding of the processes that explain the Management ofTechnological Innovation (MTI) in small and medium enterprises (SME's) with lowinvestment in research and development...