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- A Big Enterprise – Standardization For Smes (Small And Medium Enterprises)
- The part played in standardization of small and medium enterprises SMEs does not reflect their economic weight or their numbers in the European Union. Traditionally, larger companies have established corporate standardization and quality management systems that help them produce quality products that are internationally competitive while controlling costs and the...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- The Challenge of Environmental Responsibility and Sustainable Development: Implications for SME and Entrepreneurship Academics
- The move towards a "greener" or more environmentally-responsible framework of business operations has begun to be mirrored in the research and teaching work of many academics. However, it is suggested that the fields of entrepreneurship and SME studies have lagged somewhat behind other disciplines when it comes to including sustainable...
- White papers 2002-09-16
- Branding as a Competitive Strategy for Demand Management in SME
- Ability to predict future demand is a need that businesses work towards irrespective of their size. Creating a favourable competitive stance for firm s output is also a crucial goal of businesses. These two goals are of particular importance for enterprises operating in an environment characterised with rapid changes, shorten...
- White papers 2001-04-02
- Third Benchmarking Workshop Input Paper: Intellectual Property Rights
- There are two sectors which are very important for the knowledge economy in terms of their contribution to economic development. Firstly, the Small and Medium sized Enterprises SMEs whose the dynamism and flexibility are crucial for the development of innovations. Secondly, the public sector research institutes contribute significant amount of...
- White papers 2001-04-02
- Alliances in Large Emerging Economies: Evaluating R&d-Specific Factors of Biotech Firms
- In the study presented in this paper, the role of R&D-specific factors in determining the feasibility of strategic alliances between SMEs from developed countries and SMEs from Large Emerging Economies LEEs is examined. The empirical data was collected by identifying R&D-specific factors associated with biotechnology SMEs from the UK and...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- The Determinants of Debt and (Private-) Equity Financing in Young Innovative SMEs: Evidence From Germany
- Financial theory creates a puzzle. Some authors argue that high-risk entrepreneurs choose debt contracts instead of equity contracts since risky but high returns are of relatively more value for a loan-financed firm. On the contrary, authors who focus explicitly on start-up finance predict that entrepreneurs are the more likely to...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovative SMEs in a Global Economy
- This paper is an executive summary of background reports for the Istanbul Conference and sets out some policy messages and recommendations that have emerged from preparatory work in the OECD Working Party for SMEs and Entrepreneurship. The wide variation in stages of economic development, institutional arrangements and political context across...
- White papers 2004-06-03
- Digital Knowledge Networks: Linking Communities of Practice With Innovation
- With embedded knowledge flows and innovation linked to communities of practice as well as technology, Australian Small and Medium Size Enterprises SMEs have the potential to both collaborate and compete by taking advantage of knowledge platforms founded on digital technologies and new relationships. A conceptual model is introduced that maps...
- White papers
- The Adoption of Information Systems in SMEs: Organizational Issues and Success Factors
- This paper approaches the issues of introducing ICTs Information and Communication Technologies into Small and Medium Enterprises, with the aim of finding some conditions that make the organizational context able to manage the change process needed to really get the potential benefits of these technologies. The final objective is to...
- White papers 2003-06-11
- Managers' Perceptions of the Value of Knowledge Management: In Small and Medium Sized Knowledge-Intensive Enterprises (SMEs)
- This paper presents a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and Medium Sized Knowledge-Intensive Enterprises SMEs. The study focus on managers? perception of Knowledge Management KM and has taken an interpretive approach, using two knowledge-intensive South Yorkshire England companies as case-studies, both of which are characterised by...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Knowledge Acquisition Models of SMEs' New Product Development Processes and the Role of Patent Information
- Successful New Product Development NPD activities need high amounts of new knowledge from a variety of different sources. When the NPD activities are seen as a process of knowledge accumulation, two knowledge processes are identified: knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization. This paper focuses on the process of knowledge acquisition from...
- White papers 2006-02-09
- Managing Knowledge in Business Networks
- The knowledge-intensive and networked society?s ability to manage knowledge flows is crucial for companies to gain competitive advantage. Knowledge management KM is a philosophy for effective utilisation of knowledge resources, offering tools for companies to better acquire, create, share, store, process and use knowledge flows when trying to reach a...
- White papers 2006-02-08
- What's Distinctive About Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurship In Developing Countries?
- Entrepreneurship in emerging markets is distinctive from that practiced in more developed countries. Better understanding these distinctions is critical to private sector development in developing countries. Of particular interest are new and growth-oriented enterprises, which have a greater capacity to create sustainable economic growth than microenterprises or long-established Small and...
- White papers 2005-05-10
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship In SMEs: Theory And Practice
- Sustainable entrepreneurship is a spin-off concept from sustainable development that can be defined as the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce, their families, local communities, the society and the world at large as well as...
- White papers 2004-02-06
- Networks, Partnerships, Clusters And Intellectual Property Rights
- Even more than larger firms, SMEs Small and Medium Sized Enterprise need to access external sources of information, knowledge, know-how and technologies, in order to build their own innovative capability and to reach their markets. They can only partly secure such access through markets for goods, services, IPRs (Intellectual Property...
- White papers 2004-06-03
- Intellectual Property (IP) Rights And Innovation In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises
- The phrase "Knowledge-based economy" describes the new economic environment in which the generation and management of knowledge play a predominant part in wealth creation, as compared with the traditional factors of production, namely land, labor and capital. The system of Intellectual Property IP rights creates a mechanism to resolve the...
- White papers 2004-06-18
- Graphical Conveyance Of Knowledge Amongst Construction SMEs
- Much of construction work is project-based, short-term and task-oriented; promoting a culture of continuous learning is inhibited. Very often, specialist and technical knowledge is not shared laterally, neither between fellow site personnel nor organisations. This is especially so for tacit knowledge, which site managers gain and use in solving their...
- White papers 2005-05-19
- Decision Support For SME Owners-Managers: A Performance Evaluation Benchmarking Tool
- This paper presents the PDG system, a decision support tool meant to evaluate SMEs from an external perspective in order to produce a diagnosis of their performance and potential, complemented with relevant recommendations on which owners-managers can base their decisions such as hiring new personnel or reinvesting in the company,...
- White papers 2004-06-07
- Putting Into Place Project Management Processes For SMEs (Small/Medium Businesses)
- This paper provides reasons why projects generally run into trouble. Rescuing a project is sometimes like starting a new one - you have to assess the extent of the damage, review all aspects of the project, produce a new project plan and get it approved and then bring the project...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Future Of Project Management Software: Intervals
- If properly scaled, project management processes can be implemented in fast moving Small/Medium Enterprises SMEs. What is required is strong support from senior management, enough time for the Process Specialist PS so that he or she is not caught up in operations 100% of the time, and a scaled approach...
- White papers 2009-01-22
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