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Determinants of technological innovation in SMEs : firm-level factors, agglomeration economies and the role of KIBS providers
Ganau, Roberto; Di Maria, Eleonora - 2014
The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …
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Productivity growth and job creation in the development process of industrial clusters
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Higuchi, Yuki; Ōtsuka, Keijirō - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009669764
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The influence of geographical concentration and structural characteristics on the survival chance of the firms : ERSA (Barcelona, 2011)
Puig, Francisco; García-Mora, Belen; Santamaría, Cristina - 2011
The objective of this work is to evaluate the risk of business mortality. Considering a sample of over 11,741 firms in the textile-clothing sector, the influence that factors such as age, geographic density (district effect) and the principal productive activity (subsector effect) have on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011550864
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Productivity Growth and Job Creation in the Development Process of Industrial Clusters
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2017
Poor management has long been suspected as a major constraint on job creation in the manufacturing sector in low-income countries. In this sector, countless micro and small enterprises in industrial clusters account for a large share of employment. This paper examines the roles of industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974799
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Family involvement in governance and firm performance in industrial districts : the moderating role of the industry's technological paradigm
Pittino, Daniel; Visintin, Francesca; Minichilli, Alessandro - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 33 (2021) 7/8, pp. 514-531
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Trade and industrialisation in Africa : SMEs, manufacturing and cluster dynamics
Kaplinsky, Raphael; Morris, Michael L. - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 6 (2019) 1/2, pp. 47-59
China and Southeast Asia's competitive dominance of global manufactured product markets. Traditionally, global trade is … SME development. …
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Productivity Growth and Job Creation in the Development Process of Industrial Clusters
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Higuchi, Yuki; Otsuka, Keijiro - 2013
Poor management has long been suspected as a major constraint on job creation in the manufacturing sector in low-income countries. In this sector, countless micro and small enterprises in industrial clusters account for a large share of employment. This paper examines the roles of industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557174
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Developing Natural Rubber Based Manufacturing Microenterprise Cluster in the State of Tripura
Keshav, Arun - 2020
Being the second-largest natural rubber producing state in India, in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura, there exists a great potential for the development of manufacturing activities related to rubber at Tripura. As of now, the industry is in the initial stage and is struggling. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847860
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Clustering as a Tool for Enhancing Export Performance of SMEs : A Study of Brass Manufacturing Units in Jamnagar
Singh, Shivangi; Chugan, Pawan K. - 2013
Industrial clusters are swiftly expanding as instruments for both economic growth and balanced regional development via strengthening the local firms and providing them with a raised platform to access global markets more successfully. Earlier studies in the field of firm-level export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038225
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Surviving peace : resilience and production decentralization in the Italian gun-making district, 1945-1970
Semeraro, Riccardo; Miranda Encarnación, José Antonio - In: Business history 65 (2023) 8, pp. 1438-1462
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