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Italy must foster high growth industries
Gebauer, Stefan; Kritikos, Alexander; Kriwoluzky, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 7/9, pp. 65-74
Italy has yet to recover from the economic consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis that began more than a decade ago. In addition to losing 1.4 million jobs across the manufacturing and construction sectors, new industries driving growth across the EU, such as knowledge-intensive...
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"Pact for innovation" to promote the EU’s major aim of convergence
Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 146-147
Economic convergence is a major aim of the EU. Innovation and investment in economically weaker regions are key steps to foster convergence • Public institutions and the regulatory environment for investments differ substantially across EU member states and increase economic disparities •...
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The Greek private sector remains full of untapped potential
Kritikos, Alexander; Handrich, Lars; Mattes, Anselm - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 29, pp. 263-272
Private businesses’ nominal value added in Greece has fallen by 38 percent over the last ten years. Micro firms were hit particularly hard. Despite efforts to stabilize the macroeconomic environment, there are only weak signs of recovery. Future prospects are not much better, as—with the...
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Employment effects of R&D and innovation : evidence from small and medium-sized firms in emerging markets
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
This paper studies the impact of research and development (R&D) and innovation on employment growth, focusing on small and medium-sized firms. Employment effects of R&D and innovation are unclear a priori as process innovation may be labor-saving or labor might have complementarities with other...
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The Impact of International Research Joint Ventures on SMEs Performance
Barajas, Ascension - 2013
The objective of the present study is to analyse the effect of technological cooperation on SMEs performance …
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Debt Restructuring and the Role of Lending Technologies
Micucci, Giacinto - 2010
The literature on debt restructuring usually assumes that banks behave in a uniform way towards firms in distress. Using a recent survey of Italian banks, we show that banks follow different strategies when they decide whether to take part in the workout process, in that some of them do...
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …
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Transferring New Dynamic Capabilities to SMEs : The Role of ONERA – The French Aerospace LabTM in Promoting Asymmetries Management
Paun, Florin; von Tunzelmann, Nick; Richard, Philippe - 2011
The technology transfer process between a public laboratory and a company has been the subject of many publications and has been widely discussed in economic theory. This paper highlights several newly identified asymmetries occurring between the different agents taking part in the process,...
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking - Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2015
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050846
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Boosting SMEs' internationalisation in Poland
Goujard, Antoine; Guérin, Pierre - 2020
services sectors fostering robust growth and productivity performance. However, the benefits of this development have been …
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