Internal and External Determinants of Radical and incremental Innovation in SMEs: the case of Catalonia
作者： Alessandra Faggian , Josep Maria Arauzo Carod , Ferran Mañé Vernet
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摘要: There is a major concern in economic literature about innovation, which the interaction between internal and external factors.. In this paper those activities are hypothesized as being determined by some territorial characteristics like labour skills, technological infrastructure, educational facilities, agglomeration economies industrial structure. This assumption allows understanding why innovative not spread across space located into specific areas. We use detailed survey containing microdata for 497 SMEs Catalonia.
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