) to measure the degree of internationalisation in the SME sector, and to uncover its most important influencing factors …The goal of the chapter is to develop an index (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Internationalisation Index – SMINI … activity, network participation and sectorial structure) have a significant effect on the SMINI, but the strength of …

We apply network analysis to study the ICT R&D locations at the city level. We use a dataset on the location and R … most of the cities have few R&D connections and are grouped into "cliques", linked through network hubs. Hence, not only is …

di Camerino as an intermediary in creating a network of subcontractors working for the fashion firm exploiting the …

The main purpose of this paper is to present historical development of SME’s in the Czech Republic between years 1997 …-2004. It covers sections about changing strategy approach to prepare SME’s to EU entry and nearly two years in the European … Union. The Czech economy made big changes especially in SME field, because before year 1989 in the state managed economy …

concept of embeddedness. However, this concept has been subject to selective appropriation by this discipline and its … the “great transformation” to which the concept of embeddedness has been subjected: whereas in Polanyi’s work it is …