With the increasing growth of global competition, the adoption of advanced technologies has become a great challenge for manufacturing firms, especially SMEs that are in a disadvantageous context (comparatively to larger firms) in terms of resources. Various factors affect the adoption of a variety of technologies in these SMEs. This article aims to explain the effect of size, innovation, and sector of activity on the adoption of a variety of these advanced technologies. The statistical

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... conducted in this paper is based on a sample of 248 manufacturing firms. The findings of this study reveal that the adoption of a variety of advanced technologies is positively influenced by the SME's size, the technological intensiveness of the industry where it operates, and finally, its innovation capacity.