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It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas...
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The role of geographical proximity in fostering connections and knowledge flows between innovative actors ranks among the most controversial themes in the research of innovation systems, regional networks and new economic geography. While there is ample empirical evidence on the constituent...
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While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have … (SMEs). We conclude that companies' participation in the VET system facilitates organizational learning in training …
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This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education … paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …
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barriers for agriculture value chain financing. The paper discusses key barriers to SMEs' access to finance and suggests …
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Die Rolle der Hochschulen im Innovationssystem sowohl der BRD als auch der DDR hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren zum Teil dramatisch geändert. Der Veränderungsprozess in der Bundesrepublik lässt sich grob in drei Phasen einteilen, die sich zwar überlappen, dennoch im wesentlichen eine...
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-sized enterprises (SMEs) is low. The objective of the research is to establish the determinants in factoring adoption that allow greater … access to financing by SMEs. For this purpose, a qualitative study was carried out through in-depth interviews with ten …
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