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What Makes Small and Medium Enterprises Competitive
Morone, Piergiuseppe; Testa, Giuseppina - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Matematiche e … - 2005
-called industrial districts) or specialising in the production of quality goods (the so called made in Italy). However, the growing … competitiveness. By developing a conceptual model we identify the sources of competitiveness of Italian SMEs. The model is tested … using a unique database which collects data, for the year 2004, over a sample of 2,600 SMEs. …
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A dinâmica inovativa das empresas de pequeno porte no Brasil
Zucoloto, Graziela Ferrero; Nogueira, Mauro Oddo - 2016
market, accounting for about 3/4 full. Regarding the R&D efforts in low-tech sectors, the distance of SMEs to large firms is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818829
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A dinâmica inovativa das empresas de pequeno porte no Brasil
Zucoloto, Graziela Ferrero; Nogueira, Mauro Oddo - 2016
market, accounting for about 3/4 full. Regarding the R&D efforts in low-tech sectors, the distance of SMEs to large firms is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565555
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Bivariate Probit Models for Analysing how “Knowledge” Affects Innovation and Performance in Small and Medium Sized Firms
FARACE, Salvatore; MAZZOTTA, Fernanda - Centro di Economia del Lavoro e di Politica Economica … - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of innovation and its effects on small- and medium-sized firms We use the data from the OPIS databank, which provides a survey on a representative sample of firms from a province of the Southern Italy. We want to study whether small and medium sized firms can...
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Innovation in Tunisia: Empirical Analysis for Industrial Sector
Elj, Moez El - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°9 (2012) 1, pp. 183-197
The aim of this article, is to analyze the effects of factors external and internal to the firms on innovation in Tunisia, and how these effects vary according some specificities of the firms, such as the opening of capital to foreign companies. The analysis is based on a sample of 543...
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership Revisited: An Empirical Investigation with Count Data Models
Berger, Susanne; Stocker, Herbert; Zeileis, Achim - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
By discriminating between a lazy manager and a career concerns hypothesis, Aghion et al. (The American Economic Review 2013, 103(1), 277-304) try to disentangle the link between innovation and institutional ownership. Citation-weighted patent counts are used as a proxy for innovation, which...
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Innovation and institutional ownership revisited: An empirical investigation with count data models
Berger, Susanne; Stocker, Herbert; Zeileis, Achim - 2014
By discriminating between a lazy manager and a career concerns hypothesis, Aghion et al. (The American Economic Review 2013, 103(1), 277-304) try to disentangle the link between innovation and institutional ownership. Citation-weighted patent counts are used as a proxy for innovation, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382718
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Evaluating the Impacts of Subsidies on Innovation Activities in Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Radić, Dubravko - 2005
Innovations are a key factor to ensure the competitiveness of establishments as well as to enhance the growth and wealth of nations. But more than any other economic activity, decisions about innovations are plagued by failures of the market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been...
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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2005
This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy : early-stage financing and scientist involvement in...
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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2005
This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firm?level to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...
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