Small Business Policy and Support

Small Business, Innovation, and Tax Policy: a Review

Small businesses occupy a signifi cant role in policy debates. This paper reviews evidence relating to tax policy, small businesses, innovation, and entrepreneurship. We provide background information on the small business sector and alternative business defi nitions. We examine evidence suggesting that job growth and innovation tends to occur in young fi rms, which typically start off small, r...

Small business start-ups: success factors and support implications

Introduction The research reported in this paper relates to an empirical study of business start-ups and their survival and growth or, conversely, their failure (exit) in the early years following start-up. A cohort of new start small or micro businesses which were set up with the support of a Training & Enterprise Council (TEC) in the West Yorkshire area are investigated. TECs are a government...

Learning new practices in small business: Engagement and localised support

This paper discusses the findings of a study that investigated how the learning of innovative practices might best proceed in small businesses. The implementation of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) in Australia presented an opportunity for understanding how small business operatives learnt to implement a new practice. The research procedures comprised semi-structured interviews with thirty smal...

Italian Small Business Development Lessons for U . S . Industrial Policy

Small business support of youth physical activity opportunities.

PURPOSE Describe small business support for youth physical activity opportunities (YPAO) and identify factors associated with this support. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of quantitative data relating business characteristics and support for YPAO. SETTING Eight demographically heterogeneous, urban neighborhoods in a Midwest metropolitan area. SUBJECTS Adult small business owners (n = 90;...