SME, Technological Innovation and Regional Environment: The Case of Guangdong, China

Patent information retrieval: approaching a method and analysing nanotechnology patent collaborations

“…The relationship between large organisations, SMEs and spinoffs are playing an increasingly significant role in the globalisation of innovation (Gredel et al 2011 ; Qian and Chen 2011 ). Many changes in the collaborative structure between the various actors in an innovation system lead to the interconnection of higher numbers of and more diverse actors.…”

“…Patenting activities and knowledge diffusion in high-tech sectors are being increasingly driven by collaborative, international and technology-based new entrants, such as spinoffs and SMEs (Gredel et al 2011 ; Qian and Chen 2011 ). Generally, diffusion of technologies is highly dependent on a market structure and, currently, the demand for new inventions drives the generating of the increasing number of patents.…”

The Growth and Expansion Path of BYD Company Limited and its Innovation Model*

“…To some extent, SME's technological innovation capacity lies in regional development level for example region policy, legal system, capital and labor force [9] . Like many Chinese enterprises, due to volatile international and domestic environment as well as inherent bottleneck restrictions of enterprise during the course of its development, BYD has suffered the toughest difficulties in its course of growth since 2010, and sales and profits have continuously dropped: the net profits of 2010 dropped by 33.5％ to RMB 2.523 billion compared with the same period of the previous year, while that of the first half of 2011 even dropped dramatically by 88.6% to RMB 275 million, plunging the enterprise in crisis [10].…”

Tolerance, agglomeration, and enterprise innovation performance: a multilevel analysis of Latin American regions

“…The research on innovations systems at the national and regional levels has contributed to an understanding of the innovation process that stresses its interactive nature and thus emphasizes its social embeddedness. At the same time, Richard Florida´s (2002) theory of the creative class has drawn the attention to the influence tolerance, openness and cultural or social diversity play not only for the economic development of cities (Boschma & Fritsch, 2009;Florida, Mellander, & Stolarick, 2008;Kemeny, 2014), but more specifically for entrepreneurship (Audretsch, Dohse, & Niebuhr, 2010;Cheng & Li, 2012;Smallbone, Kitching, & Athayde, 2010) and innovation (Niebuhr, 2010;Qian, 2013;Qinglan & Yingbiao, 2011).…”