nep-sbm New Economics Papers
on Small Business Management
Issue of 2014‒10‒17
seven papers chosen by
João Carlos Correia Leitão
Universidade da Beira Interior
  1. Innovation, Agglomeration, and Knowledge Spillovers: An Empirical Study of Finnish and Swedish Firms By Yih-Luan CHYI; Kuei-Yen LIAO
  2. Optimal Enforcement Policy and Firm´s Decisions on R&D and Emissions By Fatih Karanfil; Bilge Ozturk
  3. ICT AND R&D AS INPUTS OR EFFICIENCY DETERMINANTS? ANALYSING ITALIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS 2007-2009 By Graziella Bonanno
  4. Does firm creation depend on local context? A focus on the neighbouring effects By Nadine LEVRATTO
  5. Models of Innovation in Global ICT Firms: The Emerging Global Innovation Ecosystems By Martin Fransman
  6. Firms´ Entry, Monetary Policy and the International Business Cycle By Lilia CAVALLARI
  7. Novel Applications of Existing Econometric Instruments to Analyse Regional Innovation Systems: The Spanish Case By Mikel Buesa; Thomas Baumert; Joost Heijs; Monica Marti­nez Pellitero
  1. By: Yih-Luan CHYI; Kuei-Yen LIAO
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ekd:002596:259600039&r=sbm
  2. By: Fatih Karanfil; Bilge Ozturk
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ekd:000239:23900041&r=sbm
  3. By: Graziella Bonanno (Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza, Università della Calabria)
    Abstract: Are Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Research & Development (R&D) productive inputs or efficiency determinants? This is the topic of this paper which analyses a sample of 2691 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2007-2009. The empirical setting is based on a production function estimated through the Stochastic Frontier (SF) approach. ICT and R&D are used once as inputs, once as efficiency determinants (Coelli et al., 1999). The results show that the rates of return of ICT and R&D investments are quite high (0.08 for ICT and 0.04 for R&D) when they enter into the model only as inputs. We also documented that ICT and R&D contribute positively to explain the efficiency scores.
    Keywords: ICT, R&D, Stochastic Frontier Approach, efficiency
    JEL: D22 D24 L69 O39
    Date: 2014–09
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:clb:wpaper:201412&r=sbm
  4. By: Nadine LEVRATTO (EconomiX, CNRS, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, La Défense, Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi, Kedge Business School)
    Abstract: This paper seeks to shed some light on the influence that the characteristics of the local context in a given area and in adjacent ones exert on the entrepreneurial process. In order to make a distinction between the purely local factors and the role played by the neighbourhood, we mobilize the so-called Exploratory spatial data analysis which determines the degree of spatial dependence and its consequence on entry rate. We empirically address this question by considering the case of French employment areas from 2006 to 2010 using spatial econometric models adapted to panel data. Our results show that financial, material, human and organisational resources locally available are far from being the unique geographical determinants of firm creation. Instead, the entry rate in a given area also strongly depends on the propensity to create firms in the adjacent places. Spillover effects taking their origin in adjacent areas should thus be considered in explaining the local determinants of firm creation.
    Keywords: Firm creation, spatial dependence, spatial matrix
    JEL: L26 R11 C21
    Date: 2014
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rii:rridoc:40&r=sbm
  5. By: Martin Fransman (University of Edinburgh)
    Abstract: This report focuses on the changing models of innovation adopted by some of the largest and most innovative global ICT companies in the world, including Apple, BT, Google, Microsoft, Skype, Telefonica and Vodafone. One of the main contributions of this report is to demonstrate that, in order to understand these innovation models, it is necessary at the same time to understand the dynamics of innovation at sector level. Beginning with an analysis of the innovation process in the ICT ecosystem, the author drills down into the company global innovation ecosystems that have been created by these global companies. In addition, he explores some of the implications that proliferating company global innovation ecosystems have for government policy. He concludes that whilst innovation is changing the world, changing global circumstances are in turn transforming the innovation model in companies, both large and small, around the world.
    Keywords: innovation, ICT
    JEL: L1 L22 L63 L86
    Date: 2014–09
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc90726&r=sbm
  6. By: Lilia CAVALLARI
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ekd:002596:259600037&r=sbm
  7. By: Mikel Buesa; Thomas Baumert; Joost Heijs; Monica Marti­nez Pellitero
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ekd:002836:283600017&r=sbm
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