Innovation Interactions between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises : an Analysis in Terms of Evolution, Knowledge and Territories /
The book investigates the meaning, nature and consequences of innovation interactions between small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) and knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). It focuses on the concept of a virtuous circle linking KIBS' and SMEs' innovation capaciti...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg :
Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica,
2001.
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| Series: | Technology, Innovation and Policy, Series of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Innovation as the expression of firms' evolution capacity
- Interactions between KIBS and SMEs and impact on innovation capacities
- Territorial determinants and evolution capacities of SMEs and KIBS
- Operationalisation of the analysis
- Statistical exploitation of the SME sample
- Statistical exploitation of the KIBS sample
- Main findings and policy implications
- General conclusion. Appendix: Basic frequencies of the selected variables; Selected bivariate tests; PROBIT analysis.