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This paper explores the contribution of design activities on product market performance of Belgian companies. While there is mounting evidence that design can be seen as a strategic tool to successfully spur sales of new product developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299461
This paper explores the contribution of design activities on product market performance of Belgian companies. While there is mounting evidence that design can be seen as a strategic tool to successfully spur sales of new product developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479051
R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … gains from collaboration can be high initially, cost may start to outweigh those benefits if firms engage in multiple … collaborative projects simultaneously. This study explicitly considers a firm's collaboration intensity, that is, the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097460
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011567351
This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298045
and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating … successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a particular challenge for SMEs due to high risk exposure, high fixed costs …, high minimum investment and severe financial constraints. SMEs may thus opt for refraining from R&D and relying more on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298668
This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298676
R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … gains from collaboration can be high initially, cost may start to outweigh those benefits if firms engage in multiple … collaborative projects simultaneously. This study explicitly considers a firm's collaboration intensity, that is, the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435446
and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating … successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a particular challenge for SMEs due to high risk exposure, high fixed costs …, high minimum investment and severe financial constraints. SMEs may thus opt for refraining from R&D and relying more on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097673
This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097716