Innovation and Small Firms’ Growth Prospects: Relational Proximity and Knowledge Dynamics in a Low-tech Industry

Anastasia Petrou and Irene Daskalopoulou

European Planning Studies, 2008, vol. 17, issue 11, 1591-1604

Abstract: The paper tests the hypothesis that innovation activity determines the growth prospects of small low-tech firms. Innovation here is analysed as a function of a firm's knowledge base and the relational proximity processes it is involved in. Analysis refers to small and medium- sized enterprises in tourism under the premise that important insights might be provided as regards to the functioning of innovation processes in low-tech industries.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/09654310903226523

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