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Innovative performance of Iranian knowledge-based firms: Large firms or SMEs?
, Article Technological Forecasting and Social Change ; May , 2016 ; 00401625 (ISSN) ; Bagheri Nasrabadi, M ; Yazdi, N ; Babakhan, A. R ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Inc
2016
Abstract
The debate over innovativeness of large firms and SMEs, which was bolded by Schumpeter, still continues under mixed empirical evidences. There are several implications for this debate including policy orientation in support of large firms or SMEs. But there is a scarce of studies in developing countries and no such study in Iran yet. The present study has explored the proportionality of increase of innovation activity versus firm size within 522 Iranian knowledge-based firms categorized in 9 industries. Innovation activity was measured by R&D expenditure while firm size stood for number of employees. Using log-log regression in the first phase, it was found that R&D expenditure confirms a...
Innovative performance of iranian knowledge-based firms: large firms or SMEs?
, Article Technological Forecasting and Social Change ; Volume 122 , 2017 , Pages 179-185 ; 00401625 (ISSN) ; Bagheri Nasrabadi, M ; Yazdi, N ; Babakhan, A. R ; Sharif University of Technology
Abstract
The debate over innovativeness of large firms and SMEs, which was bolded by Schumpeter, still continues under mixed empirical evidences. There are several implications for this debate including policy orientation in support of large firms or SMEs. But there is a scarce of studies in developing countries and no such study in Iran yet. The present study has explored the proportionality of increase of innovation activity versus firm size within 522 Iranian knowledge-based firms categorized in 9 industries. Innovation activity was measured by R&D expenditure while firm size stood for number of employees. Using log–log regression in the first phase, it was found that R&D expenditure confirms a...