Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/278378 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
KOF Studien No. 173
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich
Abstract: 
Switzerland is one of the most competitive countries in the world. Commercially successful innovation activities are an essential part of this achievement. However, for two decades, Swiss innovation surveys have shown a significant decline in the number of R&D active companies among all companies and of the proportion of companies reporting an innovation (product or process innovation).1 The declining number of R&D active companies has also been observed in other innovative countries, such as Germany, while again in other countries, an opposite trend has been found with more companies being engaged in R&D (e.g., Finland, Netherlands) (Wörter & Spescha, 2020). Such developments require more in-depth analyses, especially for a country like Switzerland, where prosperity is strongly based on companies' innovative capacities. This overall decline is mainly a reflection on the changes in SMEs. It raises several questions which should be answered in this project.
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Research Report

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