Notice of RetractionEvaluation on the performance of SMEs: Taking the SMEs in Chinese Science Parks as example

Notice of Retraction

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With deregulation and globalization, and the impact of these developments on economies worldwide, it has become necessary for China to consider an approach that would further attune its economic engine toward sustained growth. This paper aims to establish a theory framework to evaluate the performance of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Chinese Science Parks. The authors have developed the scale through reading the literature, interviewing in companies. According to the data mining that has been proceeded after the questionnaire inquiry, we get 6 aspects of the factor of the SMEs´ performance: product innovation performance, R&D performance, firms´ development performance, technology leading-edge performance, R&D funding performance, and performance of policy access. Finally, this paper concluded by examining the relation between the factors of enterprises´ size, characteristic & industry and the performance of SMEs in Science Parks.