performance of some markets especially SMEs. Market orientation which plays a significant role in marketing and give rise to the …

The importance of collaboration for firm level innovation has been well established but much of the research focuses on … innovation and external collaboration and between future product innovation and past abandonment in small and medium sized firms … level of new product introduction than firms that did not have any external collaboration. Further, firms with past …

collaborate with external sources of knowledge. The current study analyses the collaboration between SMEs and academia over an …Due to a variety of barriers to develop innovation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) find it necessary to … new joint research unit. Data was collected from a local group of SMEs that collaborated as dyads with academia supported …

and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This article investigates the importance of absorptive capacity created and … accumulated in R&D efforts and in qualified human resources, on SMEs' capabilities to collaborate with other firms, with … SMEs located in the Lombardy region (Italy). Probit model estimations demonstrate that even in SMEs absorptive capacity has …

and growth of small firms. Furthermore, innovation policies that mandate collaboration are likely to significantly …

collaborate with external sources of knowledge. The current study analyses the collaboration between SMEs and academia over an …Due to a variety of barriers to develop innovation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) find it necessary to … new joint research unit. Data was collected from a local group of SMEs that collaborated as dyads with academia supported …