SME Policy: Comparative Analysis of SME Definitions

Effectiveness and Efficiency of SME Innovation Policy

This paper assesses UK innovation policy impact on a large, population weighted, sample of both service and manufacturing SMEs. By focussing on self-reported innovation the study achieves a wider coverage of the effects of SME innovation policy than possible with more traditional indicators. Propensity score matching indicates that SMEs receiving UK state support for innovation were more likely...

SME Development and Policy in Canada

SME Development in China: A Policy Perspective on SME Industrial Clustering

The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China have achieved rapid and sustainable growth in the past two decades. Such growth has increasingly contributed to China’s economic development. Yet, weak linkages with external market, weak technological innovation, and limited SME financing have limited SMEs’ growth. This brings to the fore the need for more efficient and professional government s...

Analysis of Brand Awareness and Guerrilla Marketing In Iranian SME

This research aims at analyzing and investigation of role of brand and guerrilla marketing in keeping and increasing purchasing portfolio of customer in Iran’s SME and in this respect three hypothesizes are developed. For doing of this research after exploration of models and approaches in brand questionnaire and guerrilla marketing were used for customers of company. The conceptual model based...

analysis of sme's capital structure

making decision about capital structure is one of the hardest and challengeable problems for the companies, and also it is the greatest importance decision about their permanence. this paper investigates factors affecting capital structure among 70 samples of small business in ahwaz. data was gathered from accounting evidences and data questioners. parametric and nonparametric statistical techn...