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How efficient is the implementation of structural funds committed to enhancing ICT adoption in SMEs?
Henriques, Carla Oliveira; Viseu, Clara - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 8 (2022) 3, pp. 1-33
communication technologies (ICTs) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this goal, we employed a novel three … ICT specialists seem to be related to an underuse of ERDF funds dedicated to boosting ICT in SMEs. These findings might be … related to the administrative burden and the lack of ability of SMEs to deal with the various procedures for applying for and …
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Promoting SMEs As Suppliers in Public Procurement : Would It Lead to Innovation?
Rolfstam, Max - 2018
innovative than larger firms. Neither appear SMEs to be a central category of firms in the literature advocating public …, this paper calls for a more critical view regarding policy development targeting specifically SMEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924079
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Innovation and the knowledge-base for entrepreneurship : investigating SME innovation across European regions using fsQCA
Beynon, Malcolm; Jones, Paul; Pickernell, David - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 33 (2021) 3/4, pp. 227-248
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The EIT ICT Labs - Towards a Leading European Innovation Initiative
Heger, Tobias - 2013
In this introductory article to the EIT ICT Labs we outline its innovation ecosystem and recap the underlying motives for its foundation from the perspectives of industry, academia and society. The EIT ICT Labs are one of the initial Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083174
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The IEEE-SA Revised Patent Policy and Its Definition of 'Reasonable' Rates : A Transatlantic Antitrust Divide?
Petit, Nicolas - 2016
The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in the US (Sidak, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a similarly lenient antitrust approach to Standard Setting Organizations’ (“SSOs”) rate setting policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128859
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Food safety and sustainability : an exploratory approach at the level of the Romanian wine production companies
Epuran, Gheorghe; Brătucu, Gabriel; Bărbulescu, Oana; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 20 (2018) 47, pp. 151-167
Food safety represents a current topic, with significant implications and diverse approaches within the specialized literature. In the context of globalization and integration of agricultural markets, the necessity of guaranteeing food safety is imperative for the functionality of contemporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881711
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Conditions and consequences of education : microeconometric analyses
Bergbauer, Annika Barbara - 2019
This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education … paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054525
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Interoperability Standards, Patents and Competition Policy
Larouche, Pierre - 2015
While the traditional literature and the policy statements concerning standardization as such emphasize the benefits of standardization, the intellectual property and competition law literature and policymaking has been more critical of standardization. Intellectual property is relevant, as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031407
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Open Source, ICT Standards and Softwarisation : Hybridisation Dynamics and Competition Law Concerns
Zafrilla Díaz-Marta, Vicente; Muñoz Ferrandis, Carlos - 2022
Traditionally, SDO-based open standardisation and open source standards have been used in different sectors: the (mostly) hardware-based telecommunications industry and the software-based IT industry, respectively. However, the increasing interdependencies within the ICT sector - notably those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013302051
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Romanian SME Facing the Challenge of European Accession
Grama, Ana; Fotache, Doina - 2006
Small and medium-sized enterprises, besides science and technology, may be a decisive factor in transforming a national economy. SME are not only a new social pattern, but they won a well-defined position, especially due to their adaptation possibilities, the large number of jobs provided, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054274