proximity is of particular importance when the decision for external innovation collaboration partners has to be made. This … search for collaboration partners. …

of policy concern for the survival of SMEs in emerging economies like India. These SMEs account for the largest chunk of … driving the SME in-house R&D activities. It shows that Indian SMEs continue to be vulnerable among all firms as they have 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 …

performance, including for enhancing SME productivity. It presents evidence on the use of data analytics in SMEs, discusses main … internal and external barriers to the use of data analytics by SMEs, and illustrates policy approaches to foster data …-driven decision-making in SMEs. …

performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We evaluate the effectiveness of regional, national and European funding … a significant positive effect on SMEs' export performance. For funding programs run by regional authorities, we find … results suggest that public innovation programs should challenge SMEs to go for more ambitious innovations in order to …

-sized enterprises (SMEs). It uses data for 30 countries, drawn from the European Company Survey, the OECD Programme for International … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or … “discretionary learning” form of workplace organisation with SMEs adopting more hierarchical organisational forms. Learning …