This paper presents the findings of a survey of 237 high tech small and medium sized businesses based in the UK. The survey is part of an ongoing comparative study of high tech small businesses in the UK and Japan. The paper describes the growth, innovative activity and market structure of businesses studied. Based on characteristics of the businesses and their CEOs five ‘types’ of high tech sm...

While promoting rural economic enterprises and businesses can contribute to create and strengthen entrepreneurship, this as a crucial strategy will accelerate rural development process. Through extending these businesses and strengthening entrepreneurship among rural people proper solutions can be found to combine resources both inside and outside the village. It can also assist to provide both...

“ICT use in Small and Medium Business in Poland. Growth factors and inhibitors” is a publication describing information technology penetration and change factors for SMB market. The basic goal of the publication was to present current picture of ICT use in transition economy of the European emerging market like Poland. This publication is dedicated to: a) policy makers specializing in SMB on em...

The article analyzes issues related to the impact of various reforms in sphere Russian self-government on development cities, especially context new territorial administration systems. As initial premises such reforms, we consider, first all, constitutional innovations 2020, which one way or another affected economic and legal foundations local self-government, particular, through approval a si...

The literature provides an extensive list of incentives and barriers to adoption and use of e-business and e-commerce information technology (EEIT) by small and medium businesses (SMEs). The objective of this current research was to consolidate these factors and determine their level of influence, either positively or negatively from the adopter’s perspective, on the adoption decision. A set of...

Cloud computing has become the buzzword in the industry today. Though, it is not an entirely new concept but in today’s digital age, it has become ubiquitous due to the proliferation of Internet, broadband, mobile devices, better bandwidth and mobility requirements for end-users (be it consumers, SMEs or enterprises). In this paper, the focus is on the perceived inclination of micro and small b...

This paper presents an e-Knowledge application able to support decision makers in strategic planning for the growth of a territory. The application integrates a decision support system and provides e-Knowledge services for the analysis of territorial dynamics by processing and modelling huge amounts of data through mining techniques, in order to discover rules and patterns in a distributed and ...