(SMEs) which have taken a crucial place in all economies. Since R&D activities have high costs and public features, these … activities cannot be carried out by firm, especially SMEs' fiscal sources. Direct supports play a key-role in most countries. In … related literature, many researchers have stressed that direct public supports to -wards R&D activities are important for SMEs …

The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of innovative capabilities in Turkish SMEs, with a particular ….000 SMEs. Our results suggest that the new policies did not manage to address the whole issues that are preventing Turkish SMEs …

enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies … in business, to find the effective factors to assist SMEs to remain competitive in the future. The paper stresses to find …?” The survey data shows SMEs are now technologically capable of performing the virtual collaborative team, but the …

unbalanced panel of nearly 700 short-term loans made to SMEs in Slovakia between January 2000 and June 2005. Of the loans granted …, on average 6.0 per cent of the firms defaulted. Several probit models and panel probit models show that liquidity and … profitability factors are important determinants of SMEs defaults, while debt factors are less robust. However, we find that above …

The appearance of relationship quality paradigm in the field of international business has resulted in growing need to … firm in the long-run. In the same light, this study attempts to empirically examine the impact of relationship quality on …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle … qualified labour expels production of new products. R&D activities abroad and exports of new products spur firm growth in the …