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India is touted as a new entrepreneurship powerhouse and the next Asian miracle. There have been some successful and many unsuccessful attempts to promote entrepreneurship and small business development in India. There are also some well-founded rationales as well as a number of misinformed and...
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India stands apart when compared with many others developing countries in terms of its long standing history of supporting the small scale industries (SSI) through reservation of product items for the SSI. Despite all these, the performance of the MSME sector in India remained subdued. In the...
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Lockdowns imposed by the European Union (EU) Member States produced significant consequences in the form of losses to companies, which is why the Member States decided to assist businesses from public funds. This paper aims to identify and initially assess the implementation of schemes under...
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European Structural Funds. As SMEs are key elements of competitiveness, their support through various subsidy programmes is … important. However, as our research shows, the distribution of funds among SMEs is highly unequal. While some SMEs are very …
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The study contributes to the scholarly discussion on the effects of business plan competitions by assessing the survival and performance of the entrepreneurial teams participating in the Czech Business Plan Contest "Idea of the Year" during the years 2010-2015. The implemented research design...
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aggression against Ukraine from the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper, "SME policy … price of electricity and natural gas paid by SMEs. The paper discusses three broad policy categories and related approaches … transition. Overall, while emergency measures were initially centred on energy-intensive sectors, a larger number of SMEs was …
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In this paper we discuss the challenges for the European SMEs facing increased global competition, and how it is … offers an assessment of the importance of SMEs in the EU context and particularly in the regions concerned by the new … is a wide empirical literature, and a lot of practical experience, on innovation strategies for SMEs and clusters in …
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Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
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Financial distress in SMEs is a common phenomenon across the world, which has been a subject matter of academicians …, professionals and government. Although SMEs are contributing to the economy in the form of employment, supply of products and … services by using indigenous technologies, social entrepreneurship, income generating activities etc. SMEs are found most …
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