Managing Innovation During Economic Changes and Crisis: “How Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises React”

Florian Kauf () and Jochen Kniess
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Florian Kauf: University of Applied Science Aalen and Teesside University
Jochen Kniess: University of Applied Science Aalen and Teesside University

Chapter Chapter 10 in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Crisis, 2014, pp 85-95 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This article considers the situation of small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the European Union during the economic crisis. The purpose is to characterise SMEs of the equipment industry and to localise existing potentials which they can use for new product development as well as to determine how these enterprises currently use these potentials. The analysis illuminates reactions and answers that SMEs of the equipment industry have developed to the global economic changes and crisis during the last years.

Keywords: Trade Fair; Product Life Cycle; Product Portfolio; Equipment Industry; Packaging Recycling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02384-7_10

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