To promote cleaner production, China launched nation-wide Cleaner Production Audit
(CPA) program in 2004. This study examines the “weak” version of the Porter hypothesis …

New ventures face both liabilities of newness and smallness, which may inhibit their
innovation efforts and output. However, existing research has not clearly distinguished …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special
focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms …

This paper explores the relationship between innovation and firm growth for firms of different
ages. We hypothesize that young firms undertake riskier innovation activities which may …

There are two competing hypotheses explaining how innovativeness influences the survival
of startups: On the one hand, innovativeness is argued to foster survival-enhancing …

Institutional environment of a country plays an important role for innovation activities. Our
results confirm that external environment of emerging countries influence the R&D …

The scholarly literature often distinguishes between so-called opportunity and necessity
entrepreneurship and between “pull” and “push” motivations. Despite the pervasive use of …

This paper investigates the reasons why entry per se is not necessarily good and the
evidence showing that innovative start-ups survive longer than their non-innovative …

This paper used a dynamic spatial panel model to empirically analyze the effects of
environmental regulation, market demand, and the associated spatial spillovers on regional …

Firms have increasingly relied on their supply network for improving their innovation
performance. Although the relationship between the supply network structure and innovation …