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A Road Map to the Development of European SME Networks

Editors: Villa, Agostino; Antonelli, Dario

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-342-2

ISBN: 978-1-84800-341-5

Publisher: Springer London - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2009

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Analysing Collaborative Demand and Supply Networks in a Global Economy

Villa, Agostino; Antonelli, Dario; Marchis, Vittorio

Pages: 1 –21

[In several European countries, interest in small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), their importance in national industrial and economic systems as well as their effective impact on both local and Europe-wide markets, has been growing for several years. More recently, the globalization of markets...
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A View of SME Clusters and Networks in Europe

Potinecke, Thomas; Rogowski, Thorsten; Boucher, Xavier; Dolgui, Alexandre; Agoti, Stamatiki; Stylios, Chrysostomos; Groumpos, Peter P.; Heavey, Cathal; Liston, Paul; Byrne, PJ; Salvador, Stefano; Salvador, Marta

Pages: 23 –60

[It is a matter of course that each country in the large European Union presents specific characters and individual features of its own industrial environment. However, a common peculiarity can be recognized, evidenced by two numbers: the percentage of SMEs in any national industrial system,...
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Promote Aggregation of SMEs: Suggestions and Actions

Villa, Agostino; Antonelli, Dario; Caroleo, Brunella; Barad, Miryam; Hennet, Jean-Claude; Potinecke, Thomas; Rogowski, Thorsten; Whelan, D.; Heavey, Cathal; Kovács, George L.; Haidegger, Geza

Pages: 61 –115

[The discussion in Chap. 2 presents common characteristics of SME aggregations in different European countries, but also describes some causes of potential crisis. SME clusters and networks essentially are groups of weak industrial bodies – as small enterprises surely appear – which try to...
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The CODESNET Approach to SME Networks Analysis

Villa, Agostino; Antonelli, Dario; Caroleo, Brunella; Taurino, Teresa

Pages: 117 –144

[The overview of SME clusters and networks in some European countries, and the description of approaches and actions to promote the emergence of new aggregations – presented in Chap. 3 – include also the main concepts and ideas which originated from the EU-funded CODESNET project. Since the...
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The CODESNET Website: a Portal Supporting SME Network Innovation

Taurino, Teresa; Caroleo, Brunella; Antonelli, Dario

Pages: 145 –179

[The final goal of academics often appears to be to have at their disposal a methodology, but this was not the scope of the CODESNET project. To develop the performance evaluation methodology – presented in Chap. 4 – has only been a preliminary step. The real goal of the project was to define and...

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