Innovation and business performance for Spanish SMEs: new evidence from a multi-dimensional approach
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Keywords
innovation; business performance; multi-dimensional analysis; SME; Spain;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2018-06-11 (Business Economics)
- NEP-COM-2018-06-11 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CSE-2018-06-11 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-EFF-2018-06-11 (Efficiency & Productivity)
- NEP-ENT-2018-06-11 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-EUR-2018-06-11 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-INO-2018-06-11 (Innovation)
- NEP-SBM-2018-06-11 (Small Business Management)
- NEP-TID-2018-06-11 (Technology & Industrial Dynamics)
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