How is New Zealand best able to maximise the potential of its enterprise population? The simple answer is that it has to ensure that the „rules of the game‟ (incentives and signals) are as good as they can be. Nonetheless, there still may be instances of market failure, suggesting grounds...

Few areas in economics enjoy better theoretical grounds than Industrial Organization. And David Austretsch has greatly contributed to improve the IO field with his own dynamic models of entrepreneurship and, also, the inspiration and stimulus he has instilled to other scholars. In his article...

Based on the example of the automobile and electronics sector in China, the article examines the technological learning of companies in China and the way it is influenced by industrial policy. Companies have consolidated their production capacity and technological learning but are rarely in the...

The paper offers a new view of the process of globalization of the necroeconomy. The goal of the research is to set out the main reasons why in many (and mostly in poor) countries the economies used obsolete technologies. As a result all these countries have retroeconomy. The process of...

Las empresas de base tecnológica (EBT) adquieren un papel cada vez más relevante en el aprovechamiento deventanas de oportunidad para el desarrollo del sistema nacional e internacional de competitividad (Campos et al.2009). El problema de financiación de las EBT se ha delimitado al apoyo de...

Article deals with matters of quantitative methods of creating the optimal range for a small manufacturing enterprise. The classical approach to the formation of an optimal production program based on mathematical methods for linear programming is viewed through the prism of consumer...

This article analyzes the garment industry as an important sector of the Russian economy. An analysis of the conclusions that the number of employees in the industry is steadily declining for three decades, light industry in Russia and in countries with similar climatic conditions have a strong...

This paper explores how the determinants of new-firm duration vary according to exit route: bankruptcy, voluntary liquidation, or merger. Using a sample of new firms in Japan, we provide evidence that the effects of entrepreneur-, firm-, and industry-specific characteristics on new-firm duration...

The object of research is the results of the impact of bank lending on the processes of innovative development of industrial enterprises and the economy of Ukraine. One of the most problematic places is the low level of innovation, innovation activity of Ukrainian industrial enterprises and the...