less likely to get involved in innovation. In an extended model of firm growth determinants that includes innovation … foster innovation activities in small enterprises? Do innovators create more jobs? We use a large set of microenterprises … training is found to have a strong effect on the innovation activity. However, firms owned by female and old entrepreneurs are …

in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …

We show that the credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to … an error correction model including China and Australia. This causes negative growth effects in poor developing countries …. The reduced growth has a direct or indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth …

government policies on SME growth performance at the enterprise level, on the other, including the importance of working … development practitioners interested in an integrated approach to the study of economic growth, private sector development, and …

This article first reviews the economic rationales for innovation policy. It then describes the Finnish innovation …&D subsidies, the main tool of Finnish innovation policy, may not be a very effective way of fostering entrepreneurship, compared … support in a more transparent way. The article ends with a discussion of what lessons the Finnish innovation policy offers to …