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Barriers to innovation for SMEs in a small less developed country (Cyprus)
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In this article, the importance of barriers, as perceived by the firms' owners/managers, was, rather surprisingly, not statistically correlated either to innovativeness, economic performance or the extent of horizontal networking.About:
This article is published in Technovation.The article was published on 1999-09-01. It has received 448 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Developing country.read more
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Relationship between cooperation networks and innovation performance of SMEs
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper empirically explored the relationships between different cooperation networks and innovation performance of SMEs using the technique of structural equation modeling, and found that there are significant positive relationships between inter-firm cooperation, cooperation with intermediary institutions, and cooperation with research organizations.
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Barriers to Innovation among Spanish Manufacturing SMEs
TL;DR: Innovation is widely recognized as a key factor in the competitiveness of nations and firms and as discussed by the authors states that small firms that do not embrace innovation within their core business strategy run the risk of becoming...
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Resource and Capability Constraints to Innovation in Small and Large Plants
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the resources and capabilities that firms identify as constraining their innovation activity, the difference in these for small and larger plants and the actual impact of these perceived constraints on the probability of innovating and the degree of innovation success.
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The antecedents of SME innovativeness in an emerging transition economy
Sonja Radas,Ljiljana Božić +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore factors that drive innovation activities in SMEs in a small emerging transition economy (Croatia), and compare it with findings from developed economies, and find that most factors that were found to be important in developed economies are important in developing economies as well.
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Institution-based barriers to innovation in SMEs in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors identified the five key institution-based barriers to innovation in China: competition fairness, access to financing, laws and regulations, tax burden, and support systems.
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain why innovating firms often fail to obtain significant economic returns from an innovation, while customers, imitators and other industry participants be- nefit.
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Multivariate Data Analysis with Readings
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