In the present paper, various groups of innovating German SMEs are empirically identified according to their use (or …-oriented DUI group and the STI/DUI group. The corresponding findings confirm that SMEs innovate differently depending on the … learning modes among innovating SMEs relate to overall company performance. Our main observation is that each learning mode is …

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

In the present paper, various groups of innovating German SMEs are empirically identified according to their use (or …-oriented DUI group and the STI/DUI group. The corresponding findings confirm that SMEs innovate differently depending on the … learning modes among innovating SMEs relate to overall company performance. Our main observation is that each learning mode is …

This article examines how SMEs finance their innovations. Against the background of financial theoretical … result, SMEs can not fully develop their innovative power …

This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting … from a knowledge-based view, the aim is to achive a better understanding of how the role perceived by innovating SMEs of … seems to be essential for many SMEs because of their informal mode of learning and innovation characterized by experience …

In the long-run, innovation performance has weakened somewhat in German small and me-dium enterprises (SMEs). In …&D). In order to remove the innovation barriers in these SMEs, public policy may play an important role. The empirical … analysis reveals that less R&D-oriented SMEs are indeed more likely to face a number of constraints in their innovation …