STI-DUI innovation modes and firm performance in the Indian capital goods industry: Do small firms differ from large ones?

Small firm-large firm relationships and the implications for small firm innovation: what do we know?

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Capital Marketing: Innovation In London’s Small Firms

A considerable body of literature has emerged in recent years that has documented the increasing importance of innovative practices in UK small firms. Much of this literature has developed in response to reports of under-performance by UK firms in innovative practices compared with its competitors. This paper asserts an inextricable link between innovation and entrepreneurship and marketing and...

Small Entrepreneurial Firms and Large Companies in Inter-firm R&d Networks – the International Biotechnology Industry

Do Small Firms Compete with Large Firms?

Despite the pervasive phenomenon of scale economies the majority of firms has always been small firms. The emergence of small firms as a means of economic development on both sides of the Atlantic has been one of the major new topics of economic policy since the 1980s. This has drawn renewed attention to the question of how small firms are able to exist. The theories of strategic niches and dyn...

Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement

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 enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model on 305 small firms shows that not ...