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"The authors test competing theories of capital structure choices using firm-level data on firm borrowings. The majority of firms in the dataset are privately owned, young, micro or small and medium enterprise (SME) firms concentrated in the service sector. In general, the financing pattern of...
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) implemented in Poland and provides sectoral TAS results for general and sector-specific business functions, comparing Poland to a … Poland differ in technology sophistication in both general business and sector-specific functions but, to a large extent …
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This report provides detailed knowledge on firm-level technology sophistication in Poland, and, by identifying the main … Poland. Second, chapter 2 provides key insights from the results by linking technology adoption with productivity, managerial … technology sophistication between Poland and Korea. Chapter 3 briefly explains the heterogeneity of technology sophistication …
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find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …
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"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. The authors …
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These proceedings highlight the key findings and public policy lessons that emerged from the Knowledge Economy Forum VII (KEF VII) on Technology Absorption by Innovative Small and Medium Enterprises, held in Ancona, Italy on June 17-19, 2008. Technology Absorption by Innovative Small and Medium...
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Facilitating the growth of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is central to creating jobs for an underutilized and growing labor force in Turkey as SMEs account for 79 percent of jobs in Turkey. Creating jobs for Turkey's unemployed and for the rapidly growing labor force, though partly...
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