How innovation funding leads enterprises to engage in research and development: Small and medium enterprises’ perspective

• Hui Sun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Sun, Xiaocong Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation School of Economics and Statistics, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, China

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• Xiaocong Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Sun, Xiaocong Yang

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: xxy980bham@gmail.com

  Affiliations School of Public Administration, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, China, Nossal Institute for Global Health, School of Population and Global Health, Carlton, VIC, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3534-6170

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• Xuan Tang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Management and Director of International Office, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, China

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• Fei Peng

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of International Economics and Trade, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai, 201209, China

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