marginal. - Asia's increased innovation spending is most prominently related to information and communication technologies … Asia's capacity building in innovation as an opportunity for value capture. …Highlights - Research and development spending has risen rapidly in Asia, particularly in China, which is now the world …

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 …