Public Sector Support for Innovating SMEs

By D. North, D. Smallbone, Ian Vickers. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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Managerial capabilities and paths to growth as determinants of high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises (2011, background): “It adds value by providing information on which specific capabilities are necessary for which type of strategy in order to allow SMEs to grow faster.”
Technology transfer organizations: Services and business models (2013, background): “, in press; Hewitt-Dundas, 2012) in order to support the endogenous potential of innovation in firms (Hassink, 1997; North et al., 2001).”
Innovation, organizational learning, and performance (2011, background): “Innovation, organizational learning, and performance Daniel Jiménez-Jiménez ⁎, Raquel Sanz-Valle”
University spin-off policies and economic development in Less successful regions: Learning from two decades of policy practice (2005, background): “…the key to understanding how USOs benefit their regions is in the way they encourage network-building, and this network then becomes an asset for others to draw upon, providing particular resources which are otherwise lacking in the periphery (cf. Kaufman & Tödtling, 2001; North et al., 2001).”
An evaluation of public support measures for private external consultancies to SMEs in the Walloon Region of Belgium (2005, background): “An evaluation survey in the UK on public/quasi public sector support for innovation in SMEs concluded that a too-narrow interpretation of innovation excludes several innovative SMEs (North et al. 2001).”
Do different institutional frameworks condition the influence of local fear of failure and entrepreneurial examples over entrepreneurial activity? (2007, background): “Although the specificity of rural (peripheral) entrepreneurship and its entrepreneurs has been widely analysed (Keeble and Tyler 1995, Anderson 2000, North et al. 2001, Macke 2002, Urbano et al. 2002, Vaillant et al. 2004, Viladomiu et al. 2004), this has rarely translated into specific rural…”
Fostering sustainability through sourcing from small businesses: public sector perspectives (2008, background): “such as the Lee Valley region in London [39], identifying the need for greater integration in the design and implementation of policy instruments.”
What Kind of Entrepreneurship Drives Regional Development in European Non-core Regions? A Literature Review on Empirical Entrepreneurship Research (2013, background): “The common assumption, for instance, that higher competitiveness of local SMEs “per se” favours economic competitiveness at the regional level (North & Smallbone, 2006; North et al., 2001)) is an example of an assumed mechanism which has been debated critically (Toedtling & Kaufmann, 2001).”
The ineffectiveness of entrepreneurship policy: is policy formulation to blame? (2014, background): “…key individuals who have substantial and unrivalled power to shape enterprise policy (Grimm 2006), and second, because they are part of the government and the state they can either encourage or impede economic activity through regulations and restrictions (Acs et al. 1997; North et al. 2001).”