Small Creative Firm Innovation Survey Across Five European Countries

A dataset of 1034 small creative industry firms from Denmark, Sweden, the UK, Italy, and Greece. It examines how founders' knowledge and industry-university links affect innovation novelty. The data was uploaded by Ioannis Giotopoulos on April 11, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between industry-university links and innovation novelty based on survey data.
• Analyzing how founders' creative expertise moderates the impact of external knowledge sourcing.
• Investigating the role of founders' prior professional experience on new-to-the-firm innovation.
• Comparing innovation outcomes across small creative firms in five European countries.

Strengths

• Dataset covers 1034 firms, providing a substantial sample for analysis.
• Geographic scope includes five distinct European countries.
• Explicitly focuses on small firms in the creative industries, a specific niche.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and sector bias inherent to the original study's sampling.

Provenance

Source

Ioannis Giotopoulos via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely collected via survey or administrative records for academic research, as described in the study.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-11 09:43:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Greece.