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detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of internal and external R&D on SMEs innovation performance … SMEs. In comparison, only external R&D showed positive association to product and process innovation for Pakistani SMEs … research study for the first time has examined the Indian and Pakistani SMEs innovation activities. The implication of this …
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This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …
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This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R …, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation activities …
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"Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs", code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration … Romanian SMEs in adopting the open innovation principles. In order to reach this objective, the authors analysed the available … statistical data for the period 2002-2012 concerning the trend of the SMEs' weight in the total innovation businesses compared to …
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considering not only product innovation, but also exploratory (long-term) and exploitative (short-term) results. We administer a … them. Moreover, we observe that small firms report higher benefits in terms of product innovation and long-term results in …
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Win-win and eco-efficiency approaches to environmental management that focus on cost benefits from environmental improvement in business have been widely promoted in recent years. However they have been criticized because they are of limited appeal to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)...
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We evaluated the execution of the operational programs (OPs) committed to encouraging the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this goal, we employed a novel three-stage weighted Russel directional distance (WRDD)...
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Studies on open innovation in small andmedium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have experienced a rapid growth over the last … current research on open innovation in SMEs to integrate empirical findings and to point out future research agenda. Findings … context of North America are scant. Open innovation improves the overall innovation performance of SMEs. However, relevant …
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This paper examines the outsourcing of research and development and of innovation activities in small and medium … crucial to manage them properly. As SMEs generally lack internal resources to perform R&D and innovation activities internally … outsourcing R&D and innovation activities in SMEs, based on a survey among Slovenian companies in the manufacturing and service …
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