Public Financing Support Options to Micro-Enterprises for Innovation

Risk Financing for Knowledge-Based Enterprises: Mechanisms and Policy Options*

New knowledge-based enterprises have several characteristics that limit their options for obtaining financing from external sources: they have little or no collateral, their assets tend to be intangible, and the value of their innovations is hard to calculate. For these reasons, entrepreneurs in the more knowledge-intensive fields tend to rely largely on equity financing. This is a more “patien...

FINANCING OPTIONS FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMEs) IN NIGERIA

Small and Medium enterprises act as catalysts in the economic development of the developed and developing countries. Developing countries like Nigeria that require sustained economic growth in their economies must pay attention to the SME sector and harness the great potential to generate employment, improved local technology, output diversification, developed indigenous entrepreneurship and fo...

Financing Small and Medium Enterprises Challenges and Options

Research on Financing and Decision from Micro Enterprises in China

At present, the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises in China’s market economy has caused great concern of the whole society. Small and medium-sized enterprises financing difficulties directly affect our country to complete the “public entrepreneurship, people’s innovation” goal. There are many reasons for the financing difficulties of SMEs, such as the small and medium-sized enterpr...

Analysing Micro-Innovation Processes: Universities and Enterprises Collaboration

Purpose: This paper discusses one form of innovation work in the area of human technology and its research at universities with The focus is on how to get swiftly advancing basic research knowledge quickly into product development processes. Design/methodology/approach: The paper discusses a innovation improvement model. Findings: The industrial feedback demonstrates that the innovation improve...