Small Firms As Innovators From Innovation To Sustainable Growth

Download or read book Small Firms As Innovators: From Innovation To Sustainable Growth written by Helena Forsman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Firms as Innovators: From Innovation to Sustainable Growth provides a rich empirical analysis of innovation in the context of small business. The book first introduces the general innovation patterns present in small firms. It then progresses to demonstrate how these firms create and strengthen their innovation capacity, how they transform this capacity into real-world innovations and how these innovations are exploited for creating superior competitiveness that can be transforemed into sustainable growth. To conclude, this book offers both theoretical and empirical insights for measuring and managing innovation performance in small firms.