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Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? : evidence from German establishment data
Matthies, Eike; Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Thomä, Jörg; … - 2021
While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have … (SMEs). We conclude that companies' participation in the VET system facilitates organizational learning in training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495922
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To protect or not to protect? Modes of appropriability in the small enterprise sector
Thomä, Jörg; Bizer, Kilian - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 1, pp. 35-49
What appropriation strategies are chosen by innovative small firms? A cluster analysis of data from the German CIS was carried out to indentify four distinct modes of appropriability in the small enterprise sector. The results show that for many innovative small firms the key question is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011046432
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Networks and Firm Performance: A Case Study of Vietnamese Small and Medium Enterprises
Pham, Hung D.; Runst, Petrik; Bizer, Kilian - 2017
Small and medium enterprises play an important role in developing and transition economies. Recently, more attention has been paid to the role of networks in improving firm performance. By using data from the DANIDA project on SME survey with more than 2,500 manufacturing firms in Vietnam, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964177
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A hidden source of innovation? Revisiting the impact of initial vocational training on technological innovation
Matthies, Eike; Thomä, Jörg; Bizer, Kilian - 2022
While an increasing number of studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have a positive … innovation in small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are on average quite weak. If at all, a training firm's initial VET …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256162
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Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? Evidence from German establishment data
Matthies, Eike; Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Thomä, Jörg; … - 2022
While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341987
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Networks and firm performance : a case study of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises
Pham, Hung D.; Runst, Petrik; Bizer, Kilian - 2017
Small and medium enterprises play an important role in developing and transition economies. Recently, more attention has been paid to the role of networks in improving firm performance. By using data from the DANIDA project on SME survey with more than 2,500 manufacturing firms in Vietnam, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040481
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To protect or not to protect? : modes of appropriability in the small enterprise sector
Thomä, Jörg; Bizer, Kilian - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 42 (2013) 1, pp. 35-49
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009706124
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A hidden source of innovation? : revisiting the impact of initial vocational training on technological innovation
Matthies, Eike; Thomä, Jörg; Bizer, Kilian - 2022
While an increasing number of studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799176
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A hidden source of innovation? : revisiting the impact of initial vocational training on technological innovation
Matthies, Eike; Thomä, Jörg; Bizer, Kilian - 2022 - Updated version
While an increasing number of studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have a positive … innovation in small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are on average quite weak. If at all, a training firm's initial VET …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256335
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Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? : evidence from German establishment data
Matthies, Eike; Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Thomä, Jörg; … - 2022 - Updated version
While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201725