TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parrilli,Mario Davide (ed)
AU  - Bianchi, Patrizio (ed)
AU  - Sugden, Roger (ed)
TI  - High technology productivity and networks: a systemic approach to AME development 
SN  - 9780230553538
U1  - 658.51 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Business networks
KW  - Industrial productivity
KW  - Small business
KW  - Growth
KW  - Technological innovations
N1  - This book analyzes strategic aspects of SME development that may help to promote growth: high-tech development, productivity increase, and strengthening of linkages. Contributors to the book consist of a range of international experts recognised in the field of industrial development and/or small and medium enterprises. This book employs a benchmarking approach, which takes into account lessons that can be extracted from the development process in Europe, the US, and Latin America. It's a novel approach to SME development: it includes a tripartite framework that emphasises the importance of high-tech promotion, productivity growth, and networks.Progress in telecommunications and infrastructure, coupled with liberalization in international organizations, has introduced a number of new competitors to existing SMEs
ER  -