Publication

University Engagement and Productivity in Innovative SMEs: An Empirical Assessment.

Published: 12 September 2019

ERC Policy Briefing

Associated Themes

• 
  Productivity and performance

---

Current debates around the nature of the innovation process increasingly stress its open character, whereby firms utilise knowledge and expertise from outside organisations. From the perspective of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), open innovation allows the leveraging of additional resources which they would not necessarily be able to develop alone. In the context of open innovation universities are often cited as important sources of external knowledge and key nodes within innovation systems due to their ability to generate and transfer new, cutting edge, knowledge.

Downloads

---