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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractThis paper studies the R&D behaviour of fast growing SMEs using CIS III data for 16 countries. We group the countries into three groups of countries that roughly have the same position in technological development. The first finding of the research is that that R&D is more important to high growth SMEs in countries that are closer to the technological frontier. The second finding is that high growth SMEs are more innovative than non-high-growth SMEs only for countries close to the technological frontier. This suggests that gazelles derive much of their drive from the exploitation of comparative advantages. From a policy perspective this suggest that there are important limits to centralise policies that aim at fostering high growth SMEs.

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Research collaboration is generally motivated by quality enhancement. The networks underlying collaborative knowledge production also serve as vehicles of knowledge diffusion. Both aspects are expected to contribute to the citation impact of publications. We analyse knowledge production in European biotechnology for the period 1988-2002 focusing on the role of research collaboration. Different aspects of research collaboration are taken into account simultaneously to assess their relative importance. We distinguish between the number of contributing authors and addresses as to differentiate between the effect of the collaboration between individuals and between organizations. We further distinguish between different spatial scales of collaboration (national, European, international) and between different institutional types of collaboration (between academia, outside academia, and hybrid). We find evidence that the diffusion of scientific knowledge, as measured by citation rate, is dependent on both intra-and inter-organisational characteristics. An important finding has also been that the further differences in citation impact can be related to the geographical scale of collaboration with the European scale being most successful. Furthermore, country-fixed effects suggest that the European Union, though successful as a geographical scale of collaboration, still harbours many national varieties of knowledge production.