... to be effective and support innovative startups and innovative SMEs managing R&D activities. Small business policies Enterprise development Innovative startups Innovative SMEs Italy Stochastic frontier analysis Starting from the idea that small businesses are less research and development (R...

...-ups in Italy. The main sources of our data are the following: However, given that research has found that female owned-firms are fundamentally different from male-owned ones (Hechavarria et al., 2019 ; Marconatto et al., 2022), the FUH has been questioned in more recent years...

... (gamers/users, developers/innovators and entrepreneurs) provide different forms of support to user entrepreneurs in the different phases of the entrepreneurial process. User entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial process Communities Italy Video game Entrepreneurship is a complex phenomenon...

... 02 2017 02 03 2017 09 03 2017 21 03 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Italy Competitiveness Hospitality HORECA Green practices Tourism SMEs The field of research on business and the natural...

... sustainability strategies, or a trade association looking to support proactive SMEs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Sustainability Proactive strategies Process‐based approach Small to medium‐sized enterprises Sustainable development Italy In recent years, has spread the idea...

... be contacted at: giacomo.boesso@unipd.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Small to medium‐sized enterprises Strategic types Innovation types Open innovation Large enterprises Performance levels Strategic management Italy A substantial body of research has investigated...

.../approach A sample of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) from Italy and India served as the study setting. Data were collected via depth interviews from the owners/managers of four Italian and three Indian firms. Findings The paper finds that the competitive behavior of Italian SMEs...