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The report summarizes the conditions of the small and medium size enterprises (SME) sector in Georgia, identiies main problems in their development and provides recommendations for further interventions based on the Czech experience, research of existing literature and own survey among SME...
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Innovation plays a vital role in the internationalization process of international new ventures (INVs). However, to … date, there are insufficient empirical studies exploring the innovation decisions that enable these firms to grow once the … market entry). Therefore, this study is supported by earlier works that emphasize the role of innovation as a stimulus for …
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The effect of foreign-owned companies on entrepreneurial survival in the Finnish business sector is analyzed by using a new, exceptionally rich linked data on employees, entrepreneurs and their companies. Our new indicator of foreign presence, based on the observed spatial scopes of the local...
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This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of … driving forces are used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and …
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This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network …
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In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented … firms increasingly file patent applications that are based on inventor activities located in emerging economies, often …
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When credit application experiences are examined, minority-owned small firms are not the discouraged borrowers that credit outcome studies generally suggest. This paper examines repeated application for credit by small firms. Univariate statistical analysis reveals that persistence is necessary...
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Trotz eines stetigen Anstiegs der Anzahl von selbstständigen Frauen in Deutschland hat sich der sogenannte Gender-Gap kaum verringert. Die vorlie-gende Studie untersucht auf Basis des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS), ob bzw. inwieweit familienbedingte Erwerbsunterbrechungen, die aus...
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Innovation activities in high technology industries provide considerable challenges for technology and innovation … industry cycles of higher and lower demand, firms frequently consider the option to use acquisitions as a means for technology … sourcing. The paper investigates this behaviour for three high technology industries, namely semiconductor manufacturing …
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Although there is growing evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the formation and growth of firms, both the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations...
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