The Multiple Perception of Innovation: The Case of Micro and Small Enterprises in the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

Charis Vlados and Dimos Chatzinikolaou

No 3-2019, DUTH Research Papers in Economics from Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper explores how innovation is perceived, on the one hand, by the scientific literature and, on the other, by the everyday practice of small and micro enterprises operating in the less developed socioeconomic system of the Greek region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Our aim is to find out whether there are different perceptions of innovation from two different "worlds", the theoretical and the practical. For this, we conducted an introductory and qualitative field research on a sample of small and micro enterprises in the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. We found there is a notable distance in the perception of innovation between the scientific theory and the everyday practice of micro and small enterprises in this less developed region in Greece.

Keywords: Innovation multiplicity; Innovation definitions; Micro and small enterprises; Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O39 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-sbm, nep-tra and nep-ure
Note: Journal of Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics, 7(1), 17-41, 2019
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