Información General

• Autores: Mario Davide Parrilli (coord.), Patrizio Bianchi (coord.), Roger Sugden (coord.)
• Editores: Palgrave Macmillan Reino Unido
• Año de publicación: 2008
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9780230553538
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Resumen

• Progress in telecommunications and infrastructure, coupled with liberalization in international organizations, has introduced a number of new competitors to existing SMEs. This book analyzes strategic aspects of SME development that may help to promote growth: high-tech development, productivity increase, and strengthening of linkages.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction

    • Hi-tech development, productivity increases and networking: A systemic approach to the development of small and medium enterprises

      Mario Davide Parrilli

      págs. 3-31

      

  • Hi-tech promotion

    • The regional innovation system in Emilia-Romagna

      Laura Ramaciotti

      págs. 35-56

      

    • Small and medium-sized firms in high-technology industries: The experience of biotechnology firms in the United States

      Stuart O. Schweitzer, Marco R. Di Tommaso

      págs. 57-70

      

    • The start-up process of knowledge-based companies in Latin America

      Hugo Kantis, Pablo Angelelli

      págs. 71-91

      

  • Productivity increases

    • Business Support Services: A conceptual framework and some interesting practices

      Nicola Bellini

      págs. 95-116

      

    • Entrepreneurship, small firms and self-employment

      David B. Audretsch, María R. Callejón Fornielles, Mari Jose Aranguren

      págs. 117-137

      

    • Competitiveness based on low production costs or on high specialization and productivity: the Case of SMEs in Costa Rica

      Justo Aguilar Fong, Maikol Elizondo Lara

      págs. 138-151

      

  • Networking

    • Trust and social capital in glo-cal networks

      Lisa de Propris

      págs. 155-174

      

    • Local and global linkages of small and medium enterprises in local production systems in Brazil

      Wilson Suzigan

      págs. 175-192

      

    • Industrial cluster trajectories and opportunities for endogenous upgrading in developing countries

      Peter Knorringa

      págs. 193-208

      

    • A sectoral approach to policies for clusters and value chains in Latin America

      Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti

      págs. 209-229