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of SMEs in the EU economy and was the first to put in place a comprehensive SME policy framework for the EU and its … development. This kind of policy calls for a more in-depth look into the nature of the SME population in Europe. Several attempts … industrial R&D investment in the EU. To do so, we run a cluster analysis on a sample of top European R&D SME investors based on a …
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This paper empirically analyzes the productivity, profitability, innovation and network effects of a public policy promoting micro and small scale industrial clusters in Ethiopia. To this end, firm-level survey data was collected from randomly selected clustered leather shoe manufacturers that...
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Lagging regions differ in their characteristics, implying a need for tailor-made policy measures to improve the economic situation in these regions. However, while there are differences between these regions, certain "archetypes" of regions might exist that share the same obstacles to...
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The literature on economic systems and corresponding empirical studies have largely focused on a classification for developed countries, while other world regions have only partly been included and/or not compared to established OECD prototypes on an income-adjusted basis. In our macro...
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The literature on economic systems and corresponding empirical studies have largely focused on a classification for developed countries, while other world regions have only partly been included and/or not compared to established OECD prototypes on an income-adjusted basis. In our macro...
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empirical taxonomy of SME financing patterns in Europe, applying cluster analyses. In order to investigate the cluster stability … of SMEs. Our results confirm the results of Moritz et al. (2016) and show that European SME financing is not homogenous …, but that different financing patterns exist. Our cluster analysis identifies seven distinct SME financing types based on …
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