I ask whether government-industry commercial R&D grants increase private R&D. Regressing some measure of innovation on the subsidy can establish a correlation between grants and R&D, but it cannot determine whether grants increase firm R&D or whether firms that do more R&D received more grants....

The primary goal of this study is to elaborate and test of how commitment-based HR practices affect the innovative capacity of firms. While a remarkable wealth of knowledge has been accumulated on what accounts for small firm innovation including various internal and external factors, a void...

The low competitiveness of small businesses that dominate peripheral regions in the EU is a well-recognised problem receiving attention at the supranational, national and regional levels. Owing to the resource disadvantage of these businesses, several policy interventions have focused on...

This study examines the characteristics of small and medium- sized firms that perform training. It uses data taken from a recent Statistics Canada survey that permit firms' training decisions to be analyzed within the broader context of their many activities and strategies. The study finds...

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 under-utilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas...

Few studies on open innovation (OI) have addressed OI practices in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and how their use of OI and resulting benefits differ from large enterprises. The lack of resources in SMEs to engage in looking outward is said to be a barrier to OI, but at the same...

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...

This paper examines the financing of innovations in small and medium sized enterprises. In contrast to other existing studies, the focus is on the proportion of bank credits and internal funds as parts of innovation expenditures. The regression results indicate financing constraints due to...

This study examines the relationship between knowledge management (KM) (in terms of external acquisition and internal sharing) and innovation behavior. The concept of absorptive capacity and assumptions from the dynamic capabilities view underlie the proposed framework and hypotheses. The...

In this article we investigate the determinants of SMEs Innovation in Europe. We use data from the European Innovation Scoreboard of the European Commission in the period 2000-2019 for 36 countries. Data are analyzed through Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Random Effects, Dynamic Panel at 1 Stage...