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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822994
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010788944
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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884264
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SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271309
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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Heshmati, Almas - 2013
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328922
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Innovative firms or innovative owners? Determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330094
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333240
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Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SMEs' Employment: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cornille, David; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018
decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial … Belgian economy, clearly highlight that credit matters. They show that SMEs borrowing money from pre-crisis financially less … constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816529
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Artificial Intelligence and Reduced SMEs' Business Risks. A Dynamic Capabilities Analysis during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was … collected from 317 SMEs between April and June 2020, with follow-up data gathered between October and December 2020 in London …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177706
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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578127