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The Economics of Small Businesses : An International Perspective / edited by Giorgio Calcagnini, Ilario Favaretto
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Contributions to Economics | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011Description: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 250p. 25 illus, digital)ISBN:- 9783790826234
- 338.9
- 338.642
- HD87-87.55
- HD2341
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Summary: Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more innovation, a better educated labor force, higher likelihood of access to financial resources and efficient investments. This does not mean the end of small-sized firms, but that they need to be different from the way they were in the past. This book provides an international perspective on analyses and policy recommendations for how small businesses can reinforce their role in modern economiesPPN: PPN: 1650767188Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SBE
Preface; Introduction; References; Contents; Contributors; Part I Small Businesses and Innovation: Analyses and Policies; 1 Innovative Entrepreneurship and Policy: Toward Initiation and Preservation of Growth; 2 State Programs to Promote the Growth of Innovative Firms in the United StatesA Taxonomy; 3 OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme: Comparable International Measures of Entrepreneurship and the Factors that Enhance or Impede It; 4 The Peculiarities of SMEs in Europe and Italy: Technology Transfer Policies
5 Public Policies for Italian SMEs: Instruments, Results and Current TrendsPart II The Financing of Small and Medium Sized Firms; 6 SME Financing and the Financial Crisis: A Framework and Some Issues; 7 Access to Bank Financing and New Investment: Evidence from Europe; 8 Basel II and Changing Bank-Firm Relationship: A Survey; 9 Financial Models of Small Innovative Firms: An Empirical Investigation; 10 Sources of Financing for New Technology Firms: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey; 11 Do Male and Female Loan Officers Differ in Small Business Lending? A Review of the Literature
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