Promoting credit services to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) has been a perennial challenge for policy makers globally due to high information costs. Recent fintech developments may be able to mitigate this problem. By leveraging big data or digital footprints on existing platforms,...

This open access, interdisciplinary book presents innovative strategies in the use of civil drones in the cultural and creative industry. Specially aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the book offers valuable insights from the fields of marketing, engineering, arts and...

This book describes how a deeper knowledge and understanding of cultural differences represents a meaningful and useful tool for management of companies, and in particular SMEs, in the People’s Republic of China. After introductory chapters on the internationalization of SMEs and the role...

This volume aims to outline the fundamental principles behind leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship and show how the interrelations between them promote business and trade practices in the global economy. Derived from the 2016 International Conference on Leadership, Innovation, and...

The main focus of this book is innovation for developing countries: what is the innovation for, what are the current conditions of the innovation, and how to effectively innovate in developing economies. It contains the latest insights and analyses of innovation based on intensive interviews as...

This book investigates how strategic marketing is influencing organizations’ innovation performance. It presents a structured study conducted on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to identify the correlation between innovation and strategic marketing in both Indian manufacturing and...

This book contributes to our understanding of the reasons for the uneven geographic emergence and distribution of innovative start-ups and human capital, analyzing the role of the regional knowledge base and specifically academic knowledge. Using extensive datasets from West German regions and...

Inga Haase zeigt nicht nur, dass Kommunikation ein wichtiger Einflussfaktor im Kontext von Open Innovation ist, sondern auch, über welche Faktoren, Strukturen und Ebenen sie die Open Innovation-Prozesse und -Aktivitäten kleiner Unternehmen beeinflusst. Die Autorin analysiert in diesem...

Dieses Buch stellt kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen die Frage: Sind Sie bereit für die digitale Transformation? Unabhängig von der Antwort lautet die These der Autoren: Auch wenn nicht, Sie haben keine Wahl - denn Sie sind mittendrin, und ein Nicht-Mitmachen führt in den Ruin. Um...

1 Taiwan's Economic Development: The Role of Entrepreneurship and its Incubating Factors (with Ho-Don Yan and Shan-Yu Chen) -- 2 A Model of a Small Family Business in Taiwan -- 3 Uncertainty, Learning and Error Elimination: Taiwanese Entrepreneurs in Mainland China -- 4 Taiwan's Entrepreneurs...