1、Firms innovation capabilities and corporatewebsites:evidence on Italian SMEsCarlo Bottai14Lisa Crosato24Josep Domenech34Marco Guerzoni1 4Caterina Liberati141University of Milano-Bicocca,Italy2Ca Foscari University of Venice,Italy3Universitat Politcnica de Valncia,Spain4WebSight Observatory,Universit
2、y of Milano-BicoccaWIN 2025 February 4-5,2025Conventional data in SMEs innovation studiesCISBalanceSheetsPatentsSmall businesses are only present on a rotating samplebasis.Micro enterprises are not surveyed at all.for SMEs,many R&D expenses occurr informally,ratherreported under general costsSMEs of
3、ten dont have the capacity to patent.Differentpatenting propensity between and within sectors.Existenceof non-patentable technological knowledgeAll of these data sources suffer from a sensible delay betweenrelease and reference periodCorporate website data in SMEs Innovation studiesEnterprises use t
4、heir publicly-viewable websites as a virtual window(Domnech et al.,2012)Content Analysis:more companies than suggested by conventional data sourcesreported undertaking R&D activities on their websites(UK:Gk at al.,2015)web-based innovation indicators to detect products innovation can bedeveloped(Ger
5、many:Kinnie et al.2019,2021)results of the Community Innovation Survey for SMEs can bereproduced(Netherlands:Daas and van der Doef,2020).business innovation can be mapped(Flanders:Crijns et al.,2023)Our Proposal:websites HTML code to identifyinnovative SMEsHTML describes the structure,interactivity
6、and appearance of a webpage.The tags describe website functionality:HTML tagsthe HTML code used to create a website reflects the interaction of acompanys needs and skills with those of the programmer(Brinck,2001)the outcome of this interaction can reveal unobservablecharacteristics related to high l