manufacturing SMEs. By focussing on self-reported innovation the study achieves a wider coverage of the effects of SME innovation …. Combining these two results and comparing the outlays on SME innovation policy with the estimated effects suggests that policy …This paper assesses UK innovation policy impact on a large, population weighted, sample of both service and …

employment of SMEs as a whole is inevitably low. The rate of increase in per capita value-added for large firms was made possible … by a steep decline in the rate of increase for employment. After the Asian Financial Crisis, SMEs began to catch up with …"Why are low-quality jobs created at SMEs? It is because the large companies hand over labor-intensive production to …

relative to their share of employment. Jobs created by small firms are no less likely to persist than those created by large …

on technology and to the role of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in providing employment opportunities ….To better understand these trends, the clustering of British SMEs in two high-technology sectors of computing services and … Office for National Statistics, choosing SMEs with fewer than 200 employees; the data were sorted by region, county, and …

destruction relative to their share of employment. This finding is robust to the definition of firm size used …

This paper provides new evidence that, controlling for other effects, the growth of employment in high technology SMEs … depends on the initial horizontal clustering. The paper focuses on employment change over the period 1991-2000 in Computing … cause of employment growth, although there are important differences of geographical scale at which this effect operates for …

considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment … or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …