Bank Size or Distance: What Hampers Innovation Adoption by SMEs?

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Competition and Relationship Lending: Friends or Foes? (2011, unknown): “Moreover, small ﬁrms located in markets with predominantly functionally distant banks are more likely to be credit-rationed and less inclined to introduce new technologies and products (Alessandrini et al. , 2009a,b).”
The Home Bias and the Credit Crunch: A Regional Perspective (2014, methodology): “Using Italian data, Alessandrini et al. (2009, 2010) show that firms are more likely to be financially constrained and less inclined to introduce innovations if they are located in provinces where a large share of branches belong to banks headquartered in physically distant provinces and in…”
Innovation, SMEs and the liability of distance: the demand and supply of bank funding in UK peripheral regions (2016, background): “These adverse effects are particularly evident for small firms located in the southern Italian provinces (Alessandrini et al. 2009c).”