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The importance of SMEs in Europe's innovation process can be seen in both the academic and the political arena. Adopted … of SMEs in the EU economy and was the first to put in place a comprehensive SME policy framework for the EU and its … Member States. One of its main aims is to promote growth among SMEs by helping them to tackle problems that hamper their …
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The importance of SMEs in Europe’s innovation process can be seen in both the academic and the political arena. Adopted … of SMEs in the EU economy and was the first to put in place a comprehensive SME policy framework for the EU and its … Member States. One of its main aims is to promote growth among SMEs by helping them to tackle problems that hamper their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055239
The research focus on the analysis of interdependence of economic and ICT development results from the fact that, in recent decades, ICTs have become a dominant factor in generating socio-economic prosperity of countries. ICT expansion is a stimulus for economic growth, and vice versa. In order...
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of broadband on the GDP taking into account regional differences. This is done by using the econometric model of panel data based on database of 5564 municipalities from 2007 to 2014. In order to incorporate the regional differences we use...
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In this paper, the digital divide in the telecommunication services between 28 member states of the European Union in the period from 2007 to 2011 has been analysed using methods of knowledge discovery in databases. A brief history of telecommunications and essential telecommunication services...
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This paper investigates the differences in innovation behaviour, i.e. differences in innovation sources and innovation effects, among manufacturing firms in three NMS: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. It is based on a survey of firms operating in four manufacturing industries: food and...
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This paper examines regional effects of the InnoRegio program, which was conducted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional...
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This paper examines typical “energy paths”, i.e. the intertemporal development of the energy mixes of the member states of the European Union over 1971-2010. We apply model based clustering to detect major energy profiles and their compositional dynamics. The seven identified clusters show...
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Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by .rms. Yet, not much is known about the economic conditions under which such entities...
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