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Barriers to Innovation in SMEs: Can the Internationalization of R&D Mitigate their Effects?

Tiwari, Rajnish; Buse, Stephan - 2007

Technological advancements, especially in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have enhanced greatly the competition spurred by the globalization of the world economies. Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no more immune to the challenges that the globalization brings...

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Wirkung föderaler Strukturen in der staatlichen Innovationsförderung ; Effects of federal structures on public innovation support

Becker, Lasse - 2015

Ländern erreicht dabei KMU als Unternehmen mit Problemen bei der Innovationstätigkeit signifikant besser als andere Ebenen …

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Philo : PharmaInnovationsLotse ; ihr Weg zum erfolgreichen Open Innovation Management

Adelhelm, Silvia; Braun, Andreas; Müller, Elisabeth; … - 2011

Innovationsmanager in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) der Pharmaindustrie bei der Einführung des Open Innovation Managements zu … Berücksichtigung der Anforderungen von Pharma-KMU zu analysieren und (2) daraus abgeleitet ein Konzept zur Implementierung von Open … Innovation bei Pharma-KMU zu entwickeln.Der Ausgangspunkt des Projektes war die Erkenntnis, dass die Life Sciences-Branche im …

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Integrated process design for the inter-company plant layout planning of dynamic mass flow networks. PepOn

Geldermann, Jutta; Treitz, Martin; Schollenberger, Hannes; … - 2007

Inter-company production networks can improve the resource efficiency of production processes. This book shows the results of the research project Integrated Process Design for the Inter-Company Plant Layout Planning of Dynamic Mass Flow Networks (PepOn). A systematic approach for process...

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Reconfigurable web service integration in the extended logistics enterprise

Centre for Extended Enterprises and Business Intelligence

Medium sized Enterprise (SME). With the advent of Business to Business (B2B), and Partner to Partner (P2P) e-commerce, there …

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Entrepreneurship and small business research: how do we get further?

Davidsson, Per - 1991

Given that the long-term goal is to build a body of generalizable knowledge, so that each specific study does not have to start from scratch, I see a number of problems within the field of entrepreneurship and small business research. It should be stated from the start that the view of the...

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Empirical analysis of growth factors using Swedish data

Davidsson, Per; Kirchhoff, Bruce; Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser; … - 2002

Empirical research conducted on economic sectors in the U.S., Germany, Australia and Scotland has shown that factors such as age, size, location, legal form, and industry are related to business growth rates. Much of this research has focused on manufacturing firms thus providing little...

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Small Firms and Job Creation during a Recession and Recovery

Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998

of large firms. With regard to regional economic well-being it is concluded that relatively vivid SME activity has a …

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Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth

Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000

When the first author reviewed the literature on small firm growth in the mid 1980’s for his disserta-tion work, he noted that surprisingly few studies had focused on that specific problem (Davidsson 1989a; 1989b). Today, this is no longer true. In recent years ever more comprehensive lists of...

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Continuous innovation in SMEs : how design innovation shapes business performance through doing more with less

Matthews, Judy H.; Bucolo, Sam - 2011

Firms face the challenge to survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive global market, developing strategies to continuously innovate, often having to do more with less. Increasing awareness of the benefits of stimulating continuous innovation in small and medium enterprises has led to the...

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