L’accompagnement de l’innovation par le numérique: quelles opportunités pour les PME ?

François Deltour, Sébastien Le Gall and Virginie Lethiais

Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique, 2020, vol. LVIII, issue 1, 101-114

Abstract: This article aims to better understand how SMEs support their innovation through digital technology. In particular, we explore whether this digital support depends on the firm?s general digital profile and its location. The empirical analysis relies on data collected in 2015 from 711 innovative SMEs located in areas of varying density within the Brittany region (France). It shows that digital support for innovation is far from systematic. Econometric models show that SMEs? general digital profile positively affects the probability of them supporting their innovations through digital technology. This result indicates an accelerator effect for highly digitized SMEs, from which low-digitized SMEs do not benefit. The models also show a dropout effect for SMEs located in low-density areas, which invest less in digital technology to support their innovations than those located in large urban centers.

Keywords: innovation; digital technologies; location; SMEs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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