Recent studies within the innovation systems perspective have not paid enough attention to the role that Vocational … Training (VT) centres and technical workers can play in innovation processes. In this paper we review the recent international …, in-company work training, hiring of graduates, continuous training, and innovation-related services. Results show that …

According to recent literature, effective knowledge management should be coherent and based on the firm’s strategy …. Prior empirical research, in contrast, tries to evaluate the impact of knowledge management initiatives directly on … performance but finds inconsistent results and not allows the understanding of knowledge management contribution to competitive …

(innovation, organizational commitment and performance) of market orientation in industrial SMEs.This article follows a new … orientation influences innovation and innovation, in its turn, influences business performance. Moreover, market orientation and …

, knowledge management and control of assets, liabilities and equity, and the results obtained, the accounts must provide …

innovation and learning activities. We also argue that large firms’ knowledge spillovers are strongly correlated with SMEs …The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between large firms’ knowledge spillovers and small and medium … sector, which operates in a loosely articulated local system, two knowledge spillover mechanisms are relevant – the backward …

This paper aims to explore the role of interpersonal trust and knowledge in the number of Small and Medium Enterprises … (SMEs), both conceptually and empirically. The number of SMEs in an economy seems largely to depend on level of knowledge of … problems, the conclusions confirm two strongly positive effects; knowledge positively affects the number of SMEs, which in turn …