Data about Financial Literacy, Financial Constraints and Technological Innovation on SMEs

These data were obtained from a questionnaire regarding the relationship between CEO's financial literacy, firm's allevion of financial constraints, and firm's technological innovation outcomes, as well as the firm's financial statements. We controlled for CEO's risk orientation; firm's age, size (employees), industry (2-digit NACE code), ROA (EBIT/Total Assets), and leverage (Total Debt / Total Assets); as well as CEO's age, gender and education level.

Questions:
Please rate from 1 (absolutely disagree) to 5 (absolute agree) the following sentences:
V Description
fl1 I and the rest of the TMT have updated information regarding economic and financial industry data
fl2 I am well informed about the economy evolution and of the national and international monetary and financial policies
fl3 I am well informed about alternative financial sources (equity loans, venture capital, MAB, business angels, etc.) rather than bank financing
fl4 I am well informed about the financial assets in which I can invest financial slack
fl5 I and the rest of the TMT use economic and financial information in the decision-making
fl6 The training of the administration and finance department staff is very relevant for establishing effective financial policies
Please rate from 1 (very bad) to 5 (very good) the evolution during the last 2 years regarding:
afc1 the indebtedness offered to the firm
afc2 the costs and commissions required
afc3 the guarantees needed
afc4 the interest rate
afc5 the time-lapse response of the financial institution
afc6 the debt maturity
Please rate from 1(very bad) to 5 (very good) the evolution of your company related to the competitors during the last 2 years regarding:
ips1 the number of new products or services introduced by your company per year
ips2 the pioneering character of your company when introducing new products or services
ips3 the speed in response to the introduction of new products or services by other companies in the industry
ipp1 the number of changes in the processes introduced by your company per year
ipp2 the pioneering character of your company when introducing new processes
ipp3 the speed in response to the introduction of new processes by other companies in the industry
Control variables
Please rate from 1 (absolutely disagree) to 5 (absolute agree) the following sentences:
ro1 I have a strong propensity to projects with high risk
ro2 I believe that understanding brave far-reaching environment actions is necessary to reach the companies objectives
ro3 When I make decisions under uncertainty conditions I usually adopt a strong and aggressive position to maximize the probability of exploiting the potential opportunities

Other type of data:
cv2 Firm age*
cv3 Firm size*
cv4 Industry: 2-digits NACE code*
cv5 ROA (EBIT / Total Assets)*
cv6 Leverage (Total Debt / Total Assets)*
cv7 CEO Age
cv8 CEO gender
cv9 CEO education

*: Data obtained from Financial Statements and other information publicly available.