Firm Size Distribution and Growth

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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence (2005, background): “Specifically, large enterprises may exploit economies of scale and more easily undertake the fixed costs associated with research and development (RD Pagano and Schivardi, 2001 ).”
Firm Size Distribution under Horizontal and Vertical R&D (2010, background): “Although recent empirical work has found a positive relationship between average rm size and growth at the aggregate level, the majority of the empirical literature still gives little support for this view (see Pagano and Schivardi, 2003).”
Entrepreneurship and SME growth: evidence from advanced and laggard transition economies (2011, background): “Although new growth theories are not directly concerned with entrepreneurship and small firms, many authors have identified these as the key mechanisms through which knowledge spill-over contributes to job creation and the overall growth of the economy (Wennekers and Thurik, 1999; Schmitz, 1989; Noo”