The government policy framework provides the roadmap that can be used to implement the enacted policies to support the performance of SMEs. The Zimbabwean government came up with sound policies that were deliberately crafted to improve the performance of SMEs, but the main challenge was on the...

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided small businesses with roughly $800 billion dollars in uncollateralized, low-interest loans during the pandemic, almost all of which will be forgiven. With 93 percent of small businesses ultimately receiving one or more loans, the PPP nearly...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a widespread and prolonged disruption to life in the U.S. since a national emergency was declared on March 13, 2020. Small businesses saw substantial revenue declines in the initial months. Expenses also declined commensurately, reflecting lower revenues as well as...

Despite high hopes for artificial intelligence (AI) to generate powerful innovations across the public sphere backed by its strong prediction skills, Korea has not fully brought the technologies into the public sector in tasks like identifying policy target groups and managing follow-up tasks in...

The concept of technology commercialization is defined differently by each scholar, but it is generally understood as a process of converting the knowledge created from research into new or improved products, processes and services, and selling them in the market to create economic...