Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/182245 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
EIB Working Papers No. 2018/07
Publisher: 
European Investment Bank (EIB), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
Using large scale EIB Investment Survey evidence for 2016 covering 8,900 non-financial firms from all size and age classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or services- are more often old and large firms. This hold particularly for "leading innovators", ie those introducing innovations new to the market. To further explore why young SMEs are not more active in innovation, we explore their access to finance. We confirm that young small leading innovators are the most likely to be credit constrained. Grants seem to at least partly addressing the external financing access problem for leading innovators, but not for young SMEs.
Subjects: 
young small companies
innovation
access to finance
JEL: 
G24
O31
O38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-861-3825-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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