Title :
Innovation support: the obstacles to growth among welsh SMEs in the manufacturing sector
Author :
Lewis, Alan ; Phillips, Wendy ; Brown, Robert
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Wales, UK
Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. Despite a well-funded infrastructure of knowledge transfer programmes aimed at increasing expertise and improving competitiveness, Welsh SMEs appear reluctant to take up such programmes. This paper adopts a bottom-up perspective to highlight the issues confronting policy makers in attempting to stimulate SME growth through exploitation of new knowledge and technology
Keywords :
commerce; manufacturing industries; research and development management; technology transfer; R&D management; SMEs; UK; Wales; bottom-up perspective; competitiveness; expertise; innovation support; knowledge transfer programme infrastructure; new knowledge exploitation; new technology exploitation; policy makers; small and medium sized enterprises; Knowledge transfer; Manufacturing; Samarium; Technological innovation;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
1-890843-06-7
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.2001.952160
