While internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to
emulate it, the current debate in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of …

This book examines entrepreneurship and small business in Russia and key countries of
Eastern Europe, showing how far small businesses have developed, and discusses how …

This paper estimates the effect of persistence of innovation on employment in Spanish
manufacturing firms during the period 1990–2008. Using GMM-system estimations, we study …

Innovation ranks higher on policy agendas today, at national, European and regional levels.
This evolution is nurtured by the understanding that innovation is the key to economic …

Особенности российского малого предпринимательства заметны лишь в сравнении с
малым бизнесом высокоразвитых стран. С малым предпринимательством же …

This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the financing of investment in
order to lay the foundation for subsequent analysis of technology investments by Southern …

Regionalspezifische Wirtschaftsstrukturen haben einen Einfluss auf die Resilienz von
Regionen in konjunkturellen Krisenzeiten. Noch unklar ist in diesem Zusammenhang die …

We analyze the performance of firms from the German business-related service sector for
1994–2000. Performance is measured by ordinal assessment of changes in total sales. We …

Rising interest in barter due to the current world-wide recession has motivated a re-
examination of macroeconomic determinants of barter in the US economy, particularly its …

Small-scale and micro enterprises have received a considerable amount of attention in
recent development literature and in ongoing development strategies in many developed …