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performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We evaluate the effectiveness of regional, national and European funding … a significant positive effect on SMEs' export performance. For funding programs run by regional authorities, we find … similar though relatively smaller impacts on both innovation output and exporting. Bottom-up funding at the national level …
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Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …
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Governments regularly subsidize new ventures to spur innovation. This paper conducts the first large-sample, quasi-experimental evaluation of R&D subsidies. I use data on ranked applicants to the U.S. Department of Energy's SBIR grant program. An award approximately doubles the probability that...
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paper, we test the effect of innovation on export performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Peru that have … performance. We test the model using partial least squares structural equation modeling from 237 SMEs. The findings show that …
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International Business is understood as commercial activity which transcends borders. In the era of Globalization, the distinction between domestic business and international business has become insignificant. Most of the domestic firms go international due to some ‘proactive/reactive' factors...
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-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal of these policies has been to create successful export-intensive firms, which are often referred to … outperform other exporting firms. Thus, the notion that born globals are superior to firms that follow a more gradual …
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- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal of these policies has been to create successful export-intensive firms …
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Many international organisations emphasize the need of public grant schemes evaluations. An evaluation provides the opportunity to assess the socio-economic impact achieved by the grant and allows for a refinement of such policy instruments in order to make public funding more effective in...
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controlling for the existence of innovation lags. Parks' first mover disadvantages also emerge, as well as non-negligible matching …
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This paper examines the impact of Ramp;D expenditure and technology import on the level and the growth of productivity, as well as on the general economic performance in manufacturing firms with various ownership structures in Shanghai, China. The empirical analyses are based on the firm-level...
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