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Product Innovation and Small Business Growth: A Comparison of the Strategies of German, UK and Irish Companies

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Roper, S.

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Innovation in small firms is important both because of its contribution to the competitiveness of those companies but also because of the potential for small firms to act as the initiator, catalyst and medium of wider technical change. In this paper data from the Product Development Survey, a new international survey of firms' product innovation activity and strategy, is used to examine the relationship between product innovation and growth in Germany. Irish and UK small firms.

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Paper provided by Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland in its series Working Papers NIERC. with number 17.

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Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: INNOVATIONS ; ENTERPRISES;

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O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O30 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - General

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  1. Love, J.H. & Roper, S., 2001. "The Organisation of Innovation: Collaboration, Co-operation and Multifunction Groups in UK and German Manufacturing," Working Papers NIERC. 65, Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland. [Downloadable!]
  2. James Love & Stephen Roper, 1999. "The Determinants of Innovation: R & D, Technology Transfer and Networking Effects," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer, vol. 15(1), pages 43-64, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Love, J.H. & Roper, S., 1999. "Scale, Appropriability Conditions, and the Organisation of R&D," Working Papers NIERC. 42, Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland. [Downloadable!]
  4. Stephen Roper, 2001. "Benchmarking Regional Innovation: A Comparison of Bavaria, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland," ERSA conference papers ersa01p39, European Regional Science Association. [Downloadable!]
  5. Falk, Martin, 1999. "Technological innovations and the expected demand for skilled labour at the firm level," ZEW Discussion Papers 99-59, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  6. Andrew Copus & Dimitris Skuras & Kyriaki Tsegenidi, 2006. "Innovation and Peripherality: A Comparative Study in Six EU Member Countries," ERSA conference papers ersa06p295, European Regional Science Association. [Downloadable!]
  7. Roper, S. & Love, J.E., 2001. "Innovation and Export Performance: Evidence from UK and German Manufacturing Plants," Working Papers NIERC. 62, Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland. [Downloadable!]
  8. Love, James H. & Roper, Stephen, 2000. "Location And Network Effects On Innovation Success: Evidence For Uk, German And Irish Manufacturing Firms," ERSA conference papers ersa00p67, European Regional Science Association. [Downloadable!]
  9. James H. Love & Stephen Roper, 2002. "Internal Versus External R&D: A Study of R&D Choice with Sample Selection," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 9(2), pages 239-255, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  10. Love, J. & Roper, S., 1999. "Location and Network Effects on Innovation Success: Evidence for UK, German and Irish Manufacturing Plants," Working Papers NIERC. 44, Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland. [Downloadable!]
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  11. Mark Freel & Richard Harrison, 2006. "Innovation and cooperation in the small firm sector: Evidence from 'Northern Britain’," Regional Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 40(4), pages 289-305, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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