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Nicolescu, Ovidiu; Ceptureanu, Sebastian; Ceptureanu, Eduard - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2009) 11, pp. 41-41

Knowledge is seen in our day as the main driving force behind productivity,performance and economic growth, shifting the focus to information, technology andlearning and their role in economic performance. The growing codification of knowledgeand its transmission through communications and...

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The Impact of an Associative Strategy (the PROFO Program) on Small and Medium Enterprises in Chile

Benavente, Jose Miguel; Crespi, Gustavo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003

The main objective of this article is to determine if associative strategies followed in Chile have had any impact on the enhancement of productive performance of Chilean SMEs firms. In order to do that, the estimate of the impact is approached using the benchmark given by Social Experiment but...

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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …

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Coordinates of Policy Concerning SMEs Development in Romania

NICOLESCU, Ovidiu; NICOLESCU, Ciprian - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 11 (2010) 1, pp. 5-20

Approach of SMEs development in Romania is based on two category of premises: 7 internal premises, which refers on the Romanian economy and 6 external premises regarding the EU situation and world evolution in last two years. The second part of the paper contains the three coordinates of SMEs...

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On Learning, Innovation and Competence Building in Indiaâ€™s SMEs: Challenges Ahead

Das, Keshab; Joseph, K.J. - eSocialSciences - 2011

With a vast and diverse SME sector Indiaâ€™s industrialization owes much to the technological dynamism of enterprises. Various institutional interventions have been made to promote innovativeness in the sector, albeit, following economic reforms, it appears that the SME sector has not been...

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ARE SMEs IN ROMANIA INNOVATING?

Serban, Elena Claudia; Cretu, Raluca - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 05(534)(supplement) (2009) 05(534)(supplement), pp. 76-82

essential parameters in shaping the nowadays part of SMEs in the economy, by researches on the innovation phenomenon, we hereby … undertake by the present study to analyze the fundamental elements that should lead to the anatomization of the innovation level … innovation processes ensures the conditions needed to correlate the increase in value for customers by means of products and …

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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants’ Cultures of Innovation

Kohnert, Dirk - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...

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Issues SMEs Face Within the Internationalisation Process

BARSAN, Simona-Clara; SIMA, Mihaela-Georgia; SETEL, … - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 12 (2011) 6, pp. 77-82

company, the activity field, the level of innovation. It also emphasizes the barriers the SMEs face in the process. In the end …

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Learning, Product Innovation and Firm Heterogeneity in Tanzania

Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies - 2005

Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming … for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest significantly more in human and … and specialised labour - necessary for product innovation in imperfect markets. …

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Sectoral Pattern of E-business Adoption in Developing Countries

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Lal, Kaushalesh - United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies - 2004

Drawing on firm level surveys, we examine industry-specific factors that have influenced the adoption of e-business technologies in Uganda, Nigeria, and India. A sectoral typology of e-business adoption based on three broad sets of observations emerged. First, the study suggests that...

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