retaining competitiveness is a key goal of all small and medium enterprises (henceforth: SME), and a good tool to survive or even grow in the market is innovation. However, innovation may not occur or fail entirely if we ignore the various contributing factors inside and outside the...

Supporting SMEs became one of the backbones of EU’s policy. “Small Business Act for Europe” is the key document, which decleares the strategy of the Community and at the same time is the basis of members’ national SME policies. For us it is even more important to be able to keep up at...

In this article we summerize the views of the most umportant stakeholders concerning the new long term program of the European Union: ‘Europe 2020 A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth which determines the next few years of all of the European countries and their citizens. The...

SMEs realize that the lack of financial, material and human resources is inhibiting their further development. One of the options how to face the increasing competitive pressure is networking of SMEs. In Slovakia there are various types of SMEs (370 193 SMEs in 2003 in the form of physical and...