Wissenstransferaktivitäten von schwerpunktmäßig kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) in der Region Jena. Die Studie konzentriert sich auf drei …The research project KompNet 2011 - Factors determining the success of regional innovation networks, funded by the …-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely around Jena (Thuringia). The study focuses on three aspects: How do the different channels used …

Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …

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 …

SME employers. We find that innovative firms are more likely to be turned down for finance than other firms, and this …

these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses …

classified as either support for process innovation or support for product innovation. Although these types of programs do not … difference in differences were combined. The study found that by supporting both process and product innovation … product innovation activities. …

This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only …

those regarding the "performance" factor. As a result, the development of entrepreneurship has transformed over the last … technological progress. The present paper aims therefore to describe how encouraging entrepreneurship, at both national and regional …

Expansion of entrepreneurship, both as a concept and as a representative of the level of economic development, is … SMEs, considering an entrepreneurship perspective …

business characteristics, finding that entrepreneurship is rare but more frequent in the upper class than the middle or lower … for promoting higher productivity and welfare than policies encouraging entrepreneurship. …