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This study examines a group of SMEs operating in the same industrial sector but with policies, strategies, and practices that differ significantly. An integrated framework is presented whose predictor variables comprise the Strategic Orientations of Business Enterprise (STROBE), structural...
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innovation and learning activities. We also argue that large firms’ knowledge spillovers are strongly correlated with SMEs …
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The aim of the study is to analyze the actual demand of SMEs from the Baltic Sea region for innovation support. The … results of the conducted study can help formulate recommendations designed to increase innovation and competitiveness of SMEs … in the Baltic Sea Region in the future. Research activities of this study include: the evaluation of innovation level of …
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innovation in business has been done …
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consider critical for success in the innovation process? From the perspective of the respondents, the entrepreneur is the most … important factor in the innovation process. Internal aspects dominate not only the list of success factors but also the top of … entrepreneurs do not consider external circumstances very important aspects of innovation success. They have a rather egocentric …
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Innovation is central to economic growth, as the area in which it develops takes the whole sphere of economic … measures that European countries which already apply and Romania, willing to encourage innovation. The present paper presents … innovation and also the ways of applying it within small and medium sized enterprises. …
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consider critical for success in the innovation process? From the perspective of the respondents, the entrepreneur is the most … important factor in the innovation process. Internal aspects dominate not only the list of success factors but also the top of … entrepreneurs do not consider external circumstances very important aspects of innovation success. They have a rather egocentric …
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In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there has been increased focus on access to finance for small firms. Research from before the crisis suggested that it was harder for innovative firms to access finance. Yet no research has considered the differential effect of the crisis on innovative...
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European and German economic policy are increasingly shifting their emphasis to small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs). In 2008, the European Union adopted the Small Business Act with the goal of creating better underlying conditions for smaller businesses. The German government is also...
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to become large firms and (global) leading R&D investors. Accordingly, a broad R&D and innovation (policy) strategy is … innovation-intensity across firm-sized classes. …
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