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Participation of SMEs in Vietnam's Exports : An Evaluation from RCA Perspective, 1985-2010
No full textDeterminants of Innovation in Laos : A Survey of Micro and Small Businesses in Vientiane
Full text linkThe Government of Laos has recognized the role and supported the development of the private sector. This sector is expected to provide employment opportunities to the young labor force, and contribute to poverty reduction and socioeconomic development. Following the enactment of the business law in 1994, the role of SMEs which form the backbone of the private sector has become more relevant to the country’s economy. Upon enacting a decree on SME promotion (Decree No. 42/PM), the policy on supporting SMEs was embedded in the five-year national socio-economic development plans. Recently, promoting innovation among SMEs has been highlighted in the Lao SMEs Development Plan 2016 2020. SMEs in Laos still mainly concentrate on the domestic market. They are mainly domestically owned, lack managerial and technical skills, and face financial constraints in business operation and expansion, and fierce competition in an increasingly globalized environment. Overall, SMEs in Laos have experienced a rapid expansion in the last two decades, increasing in the number (of enterprises) from 3,106 in 1990 1995 to 10,631 in 1996 2000. Considering the important role and contribution of SMEs to economic development in Laos, the proposed study attempts to address the determinants of innovation. The analysis applies primary data from a selfconducted questionnaire survey of 200 manufacturing micro and small enterprises in Vientiane in 2016. The Survey covers the manufacturing subsectors which are categorized into food and non-food sectors. The results indicate that owner education appears to stimulate some innovation activities, such as introduction of new products which tend to be new to the market. The findings highlight the importance of human capital on innovation in enterprise development
Determinants of Innovation in Laos : A Survey of Micro and Small Businesses in Vientiane
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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