Authors,Title,Year,Link,Abstract,Keywords,Publisher,Pubplace,Language,Document Type "Financiación de la innovación en las mipyme Iberoamericanas",2013,"http://www.icesi.edu.co/revistas/index.php/estudios_gerenciales/article/view/1593","Innovation enables companies to achieve a sustainable timely competitive advantage and is a keydeterminant of economic growth. Funding has often been mentioned as a major barrier to carry outinnovation activities. This empirical paper analyzes the relationship between funding sources andinnovative activity by IberoAmerican micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (Msmes) based on theresults of a survey conducted on a sample of 1970 firms. The results indicate a significant positiverelationship between the use of borrowed funds and innovative activity. This demonstrates the importanceof mechanisms to facilitate Msmes access to external debt funding in order to achieve high levels ofinnovation.","FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ADMINISTRATIVAS Y ECONÓMICAS,PRODUCCIÓN INTELECTUAL REGISTRADA - UNIVERSIDAD ICESI,ADMINISTRACION,MIPYMES,FINANCIACIÓN,INNOVACIÓN","Universidad Icesi","spa","info:eu-repo/semantics/article",