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period of 2005-2007. Using a parametric, instrumental variable approach and a non-parametric matching method, we find that … exporting. The impacts of innovation on exporting vary widely across industries and provinces. …
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standard case of technology transfer. We study the characteristics of the matching process, that makes this exchange in …
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Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an … approach to entrepreneurship and innovation. In this paper we address the innovation strategies of SMEs engaged in the …
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This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting … from a knowledge-based view the aim is to achieve a better understanding of how the role perceived by innovating SMEs of …-related appropriation strategy seems to be essential for many SMEs because of their informal mode of learning and innovation characterized …
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This paper explores the effectiveness of a recently introduced innovation subsidy program targeted at SMEs in Croatia … at innovative SMEs might need to be evaluated differently than general subsidies. This is especially evident in the … evaluation of input additionality. The analysis indicates that SMEs which started with a higher R&D capability tend to increase R …
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that SMEs are extremely heterogeneous, it is argued that the application of projective techniques to assess their attitudes …
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Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …
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versions of a semi-parametric matching approach are employed. The two matching estimators result in somewhat different results …
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Since the beginning of the decade, France has seen a marked decline in its export performance, leading to growing concerns on the part of the authorities and of civil society about the economy’s capacity to adapt to the intensified globalisation of trade and investment in goods and services....
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There are sunk costs associated with exporting, hence some firms export and others do not. Research shows that … relation between firm-specific characteristics and exporting. Therefore, we investigate the effect of entering into export … market on productivity and employment with firm-level data using matching and difference-in-difference techniques. We end up …
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