Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a lack of entrepreneurial behavior and/or to the weaknesses of Turkish...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between large firms´ knowledge spillovers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) absorptive capacities. We built direct indicators for these two concepts and we carried out a structural equations analysis to determine the relationship...