Innovation success of non-R&D-performers: Substituting technology by management in SMEs

Small Business Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-58

  Rammer, Christian ^a   Czarnitzki, Dirk ^a,b   Spielkamp, Alfred ^a,c  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c WESTPHALIAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Innovation management; Innovation success; R D; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349248075     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9185-7     Document Type: Article

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