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The Contribution of "Empreender Project" to the Development of Micro and Small Enterprises' Networks at Santa Catarina State (Brazil)
Cardoso, Cristiane - Centro de Investigação sobre Espaços e … - 2011
In a globalized and increasingly competitive market, the organization of micro and small enterprises in network structures warrants the survival and competitiveness of companies and consequent development of the regions where they act. The “Empreender Project” has been a key factor for the...
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Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory
Huggins, Robert; Thompson, Piers - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 103-128
Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the … that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics … mediate the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation-based regional growth. It is suggested that network dynamics …
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The importance of human capital in the early internationalisation of Indian knowledge-intensive service firms
Kumar, Nishant - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 6 (2013) 1/2, pp. 21-41
This study explores how human capital is inherently related to the early stage survival and competitive sustenance of born global firms. Based on longitudinal in-depth case studies of five knowledge-intensive service born global firms from India, this study suggests that differences in...
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Creativity as an integral element of social capital and its role for economic performance
Westlund, Hans; Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818716
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Guanxi, performance and innovation in entrepreneurial service projects.
Arribas, Iván; Hernández, Penélope; Vila, Jose E. - Estructura de Recerca Interdisciplinar Comportament … - 2012
This paper analyzes the role played by two dimensions of entrepreneurs’ private social capital in the survival, growth and innovativeness of entrepreneurial service ventures: local size and preferential attachment degree. We build a bi-dimensional measure of social capital based on network...
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Entrepreneurship and innovation networks
Karlsson, Charlie; Warda, Peter - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 393-398
innovation networks remain invariant between decades, and (2) how knowledge about such features can be employed in policy at the …In this paper, we give a general introduction to the notion of entrepreneurship and how it has many complex meanings … regional policy issues. The most apparent concerns conditions conducive for entrepreneurship in the form of new firms and firm …
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Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2005
diffuses through ethnic networks, and manufacturing output in foreign countries increases with an elasticity of 0.1-0.3 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754963
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Strategia ed ecologie tra risorse, fiducia e relazioni nell’impresa-network
PILOTTI, Luciano - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
In that work we explore the ability to learning-by-learning of the SME-network as relational capital of sustainable … creatively” the chain relationship between best practices and standard of management procedure, innovation and communication of … attracting new ones. Sme-network of firms becomes more able to adaptability to the environment in a co-evolutionary trajectory …
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Access to finance for innovative SMEs since the financial crisis
Lee, Neil; Sameen, Hiba; Cowling, Marc - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 2, pp. 370-380
SME employers. We find that innovative firms are more likely to be turned down for finance than other firms, and this …
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The impact of the crisis on the SME sector in Romania-The back-up of innovation and entrepreneurship development
SZABO, Zsuzsanna K. - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 33 (2011) 2(42), pp. 90-108
It is widely recognized that the economic recovery largely depends on the improvement of the SME sector. In the order … presents first a short review of the national economy and the role of the SME sector. The paper presents also the situation of … the SME sector after 2008 and a SWOT analysis in order to identify targets for the next period in concordance with the …
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