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The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in rural regions across a number of OECD geographies. It argues that SME creation is especially important for rural economic development and identified lessons for national level...
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articles is innovation. However, the question is whether innovation necessarily leads to growth. The aim of this research is to … investigate the relationship between high growth and innovation. Dataset for this research consists of 181 SMEs from Croatia … existence of innovation in the enterprise is not present among factors that influence growth. This research raises the question …
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cover all the costs, including the costs of investment and innovation, to operate in an effective way, to "balance …
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classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …
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The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …
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"European Innovation Champions" successfully absorbed and reacted to the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Five different … European Innovation Champions during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We distill 10 management principles representing key … actions and decisions that allowed the European Innovation Champions to manage each paradox. This report provides policymakers …
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