A new contribution from our researchers has been accepted for publication.

Bottai, C., L. Crosato, J. Domenech, M. Guerzoni and C. Liberati (2024) “Scraping innovativeness from corporate websites: Empirical evidence on Italian manufacturing SMEs”. Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

The paper shows that websites of innovative SMEs are larger than those of otherwise similar, non-innovative SMEs. Furthermore, innovative SMEs use more modern coding styles to create their websites. Therefore, it is possible to distinguish between innovative and non-innovative SMEs based on some features of the HTML code used to create corporate websites.

For more information, you can read the paper here.