This very valuable book collects together excellent empirical essays on what amounts to a silent majority in advanced industrial societies: low and medium tech

This book highlights the economic relevance of the so-called low-tech industries and firms. Non R&D intensive firms continue to be the economic backbone of seve

This book presents the first multidimensional investigation of KIE in the context of low-tech industries and gives insights in paradox conditions and specific m

Like much of SMEs research, innovation studies of small enterprises have commenced later and are less numerous. The focus of such studies remains high-technolog

The concept of open innovation (OI) has become a very popular topic during the last decade, with an increasing number of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SM