caa a22 4500 467994005 CHVBK 20180323112552.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00389530 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00389530 Innovation, formal vs. informal R&D, and firm size: Some evidence from Italian manufacturing firms [Elektronische Daten] [Enrico Santarelli, Alessandro Sterlacchini] On the basis of data from two recent surveys on innovation diffusion in Italian manufacturing industry, this paper shows that informal R&D is an important part of the total R&D undertaken by small and medium sized firms. Nevertheless, when an output indicator such as the number and the nature of the innovations introduced by firms of different size is used, it emerges that small firms have introduced mainly incremental rather than major innovations. The paper therefore suggests that systematic R&D undertaken by large firms within structured laboratories is more effective (in terms of product innovations) than occasional R&D carried out by small firms. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Santarelli Enrico Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9RF, Brighton, East Sussex, UK aut Sterlacchini Alessandro Dipartimento di Economia, Università di Ancona, Via Barelli 11, 60121, Ancona, Italy aut Small Business Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/3(1990-09-01), 223-228 0921-898X 2:3<223 1990 2 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389530 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389530 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Santarelli Enrico Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9RF, Brighton, East Sussex, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sterlacchini Alessandro Dipartimento di Economia, Università di Ancona, Via Barelli 11, 60121, Ancona, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/3(1990-09-01), 223-228 0921-898X 2:3<223 1990 2 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer