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A borrowing cost model for effective performance of SMEs in Uganda

Tumwine, Sulait; Akisimire, Richard; Kamukama, Nixon; … - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 11 (2015) 2, pp. 74-89

elements (interest rate and loan processing costs) are associated with SME performance. Furthermore, cost of borrowing as a … by the virtual of the results, there are other factors that contribute to SME performance that were not part of this …

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Firm capital: the obscure organizational assets

DESMAN, Robert A. - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 10 (2009) 1, pp. 19-33

Representing the majority of business enterprises, employment, and a substantial portion of the global GDP, collectively, SMEs are significant economic engines. Individually, however, they cannot begin to match the physical and financial, hard capital, assets of their “big business”...

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MODELLING IN INNOVATION PROCESS

Pachura, Aneta - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2008) 10, pp. 39-39

SME competitive advantage is the resultant of actions aimed at full adaptationto the changing demands of external and … internal environments. It may be assumed that theprocess of shaping the basic SME success factors is determined by corporate … activity is one of the most important factorof SME development. …

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Romania’s integration in the European Union and the absorption of structural funds

Ovidiu, NICOLESCU; Sebastian, CEPTUREANU - In: Economia. Seria Management 12 (2009) 2 Special, pp. 152-158

Romania’s integration in European Union brought both advantages and disadvantages for local entrepreneurs. The current paper presents the results of a comprehensive study regarding several thousand Romanian SMEs on an important issue: absorption of structural funds

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Capitalising on Innovation for Exports by the SME Sector

Nguyen, Anh Ngoc; Jones, Nicola; Nguyen, Nhat Duc; … - Development and Policies Research Center (Depocen) - 2009

A key question facing Vietnamese policy makers is how to improve the competitiveness of the small and medium enterprises. Among the many initiatives being proposed to improve their competitiveness innovation policy has attracted attention not only from policy makers, but also from researchers...

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Strategia ed ecologie tra risorse, fiducia e relazioni nell’impresa-network

PILOTTI, Luciano - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

In that work we explore the ability to learning-by-learning of the SME-network as relational capital of sustainable … attracting new ones. Sme-network of firms becomes more able to adaptability to the environment in a co-evolutionary trajectory …

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The evolution of Italian Firms: from the “Cina in Europe” to the new developing solutions

Colaninno, Matteo - In: BANCARIA 6 (2006) June, pp. 8-14

The entrepreneur is an innovator devising, creating, destroying and starting again a business. In a deep changed world, the development of a firm is influenced by the relationship with the financial market and the banks that also in the next years will have a significant role in the financing...

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Politique Industrielle et PME : Nouvelle Politique et Nouveaux Outils ?

Carré, Denis; Levratto, Nadine - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2008

After having sought to reduce production costs, economic policies dedicated to SMEs tend to promote cooperation and to become more and more systemic. These sorts of policies refer to different underlying models in which firms and technology play different roles. This paper aims at studying the...

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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises

Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

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The Indirect Costs of Venture Capital in Canada

Carpentier, Cécile; Suret, Jean-Marc - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2005

Some analysts and policy makers consider that the growth of New Technology Based Firms (NTBF) is impeded by an insufficient supply of capital. In Canada, as in other jurisdictions, the public authorities have interceded to fill this equity gap by increasing the supply of funds. However, several...

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