productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is … in quality ICT education and training for students, teachers, SME workers and older people is key to address the lack of … networks between SMEs, academia and large firms through vouchers or platforms can support SMEs’ R&D and commercialisation of …

offering skills training and in hiring workers with more formal education. Drawing on a dataset of enterprises in five Asian … countries, we find major size-based differences in education and training. While smaller firms train less, they also are less …

outside businesses), and into education. We also find substitution away from formal insurance,along with increases in access …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their growth stage reach the point where, on the one hand, personal …, the development of a sound credit guarantee scheme will be an important step in filling the financing gap of SMEs. We … investigate the situation of the credit guarantee scheme for SMEs in Iran by using the available data and interviews with …

generation of innovation at the firm levels. Internationalization and interaction for SMEs represent action strategies in an … this paper we analyze the predictors of innovation generation in SMEs, demonstrating the relevance of internationalization … and cooperation strategies in Basque and Sicilian firms comparing the two experiences. SMEs constitute the majority …