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Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement

Andries, Petra - 2013

It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas...

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The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity - are There Differences between Young and Old Companies?

Müller, Elisabeth - 2014

use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the …

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The Contribution of Different Public Innovation Funding Programs to SMEs’ Export Performance

Liu, Rebecca - 2016

performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We evaluate the effectiveness of regional, national and European funding … a significant positive effect on SMEs' export performance. For funding programs run by regional authorities, we find … results suggest that public innovation programs should challenge SMEs to go for more ambitious innovations in order to …

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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs

Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - 2008

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …

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The Effect of Staged Project Management on Product Innovation : Evidence From a Firm Survey

Haneda, Shoko; Kurihara, Koki; Ono, Arito - 2023

This study examines whether staged project management is beneficial or harmful for making product innovations. Using a unique firm survey for Japan, we find that firms that employed staged project management had a higher likelihood of introducing new products to the market. Additional...

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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data

Kraft, Kornelius; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2014

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...

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Externalities in Knowledge Production : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Hinnosaar, Marit - 2019

Do contributions to online content platforms induce a feedback loop of ever more user-generated content or will they discourage future contributions? To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment which added content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find...

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Externalities in Knowledge Production : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Hinnosaar, Marit - 2020

Are there positive or negative externalities in knowledge production? We analyze whether current contributions to knowledge production increase or decrease the future growth of knowledge. To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment that added content to some pages in Wikipedia while...

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The Impact of Innovation on Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises with Different Growth Rates

Zimmermann, Volker - 2014

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee...

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu, Jordi; Mairesse, Jacques; … - 2009

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...

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