technology and innovation have created a plethora of new opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper …

development model, based on SMEs, which is founded on the specialization of productions, on innovation and internationalization … competitiveness of the Italian industrial districts, if they represent a model of success or rather a weak system of production. Thus … also by the social and cultural environment. The second argument regards the competitiveness of this Italian industrial …

on SMEs, is struggling to regain competitiveness in global markets. In light of these stylised facts, we first … investigate whether innovating activities and quality goods’ production enhance Italian SMEs’ probability to be exporter. Our … findings suggest that both products’ quality and innovative activities affect considerably SMEs’ likelihood to export …

technology and innovation have created a plethora of new opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper …

decade, before the apparition of the current crisis. An analysis of the deterioration in competitiveness points to supply … offshoring the entire production process. Restoring competitiveness will require steps to strengthen the country’s growth …, promoting innovation, reducing the tax burden, boosting competition and creating favourable conditions for businesses to grow …

conceived to stimulate, respectively, research, innovation, and competitive techno-science and competitiveness of productive … (equity and debt), innovation in SMEs. A specific focus is devoted to the “SME Instrument”. In the third part, similarly, is … (2014-2020): Horizon 2020 and COSME (Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Mediumsized Enterprises). They are …

By using a very novel dataset from Turkish SMEs, this paper investigates the effects of agglomeration economies on …

small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Poland were subjected to a survey. The data collected revealed the innovation … types of SMEs in Poland and external financial factors influencing innovation the most. The results show external factors …Stimulating innovation is one of the pressing policy challenges facing many countries in the world today. The paper …

Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative … of owner-managed SMEs and innovative capacity. This finding is highly robust when controlling for spatial correlations. …