Innovative Activity in SMEs and Rural Economic Development: Some Evidence from England

By D. North, D. Smallbone. 2000

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management of Technology and Innovation, Urban Studies

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Types of innovation, sources of information and performance in entrepreneurial SMEs (2010, background): “For example, North and Smallbone (2000) discovered that the majority of innovations in SMEs are generated by relying on the internal sources of ideas and expertise, without any direct contribution from outside the firm.”
Entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness: The role and progression of policy (2011, background): “The three Northern English regions have the fewest firms per capita in England and start-up rates are low (Northern Way 2005 ; One NorthEast 2006 ; North West Development Agency [NWDA] 2006 ; Yorkshire Forward 2006a ).”
Is regional innovation system development possible in peripheral regions? Some evidence from the case of La Pocatière, Canada (2008, background): “Finally, possibility of entrepreneurial growth is limited due to the relative absence of local competition in product markets, the limited scale and scope of local market opportunities, combined with the distance from the largest markets (North and Smallbone 2000).”
Personal Characteristics of Entrepreneurs in the Context of Perception and Management of Business Risk in the Sme Segment (2015, background): “The owners of these companies play central role in the initiation and development of innovation and they are often become the only person involved in the innovation process (North and Smallbone, 2000).”
Innovation and Networking in Peripheral Areas—a Case Study of Emergence and Change in Rural Manufacturing (2007, background): “Other qualitative characteristics of the rural labour force, such as reliability and low turnover, may also act as a disincentive to investing in new process technology and labour saving process innovations (North & Smallbone, 2000 ).”
What Kind of Entrepreneurship Drives Regional Development in European Non-core Regions? A Literature Review on Empirical Entrepreneurship Research (2013, methodology): “With innovation as a driver of entrepreneurial activities, two types of entrepreneurship are distinguished: entrepreneurship and SMEs in non-core regions, and entrepreneurship in the agro-food sector (see the section Different Types of Entrepreneurship in Non-core Regions).”
Entrepreneurship and the determinants of firm survival within regions: human capital, growth motivation and locational conditions (2017, background): “…regions across the world indicate that a lack of access to major markets is perceived to be a problem for survival despite the existence of potential opportunities (North and Smallbone 2000; Tödtling and Trippl 2005; Felzensztein, Gimmon, and Aqueveque 2013; Amorós, Felzensztein, and Gimmon 2013).”
Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey (2016, background): “In terms of ‘organization-related characteristics’, some authors (e.g., Dinis, 2006a, 2006b; North & Smallbone, 2000a, 2000b), have emphasized the topic of ‘innovation’, i.e., the attempt to create competitive advantage by perceiving new and better ways of trading and competing in an industry and…”
Business Networks and Economic Development in Rural Communities in the United States (2010, background): “…sizes, geographic isolation, and reduced access to skilled labor, technology, and equity capital, some regions still flourish with above-average levels of firm births and with high growth ventures, particularly in the retail sector (Acs & Malecki, 2003; Henderson, 2002; North & Smallbone, 2000a).”