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The Largest Italian SMES

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 2006
The industrial prototype of a superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES), sized to deliver 1 MW for 1 s, was designed and constructed as the result of a research project, partly funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. After successfully undergoing factory tests, the SMES was installed at the Elettra Synchrotron Light ...
L. OTTONELLO   +12 more
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SMEs, Institutions, and Performance

2013
This chapter addresses at the outset the topic of SMEs and economic development from an institutions perspective. The authors argue that the transaction cost theory is not helpful towards understanding the role that institutions play for SME performance for several reasons.
Jensen, Camilla, Low, Mei Peng
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Rethinking organizational resilience and strategic renewal in SMEs

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2018
Building on work that associates organizational resilience with crisis recovery and strategic renewal, I examine how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) vary in the formalisation of activities intended to achieve strategic growth and activities to
Brahim Herbane
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The Future for SMEs

1993
In the Conclusion, at the end of our last edition, we looked at the problems involved in trying to compare small and large businesses in non-financial matters. However, anything that cannot easily be measured cannot easily be ranked. Inevitably our conclusions were arrived at with great diffidence.
Jim Dewhurst, Paul Burns
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The internationalisation of Portuguese SMEs

International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 2007
This paper begins with an overview of the history of Portuguese entrepreneurship over the last century. Next, the study analyses the importance of SMEs in actual competitive environment of international markets, investigating the case of the internationalisation of Portuguese businesses (processes, modes of entry, strategies and intentions and reasons ...
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„Ims“ for SME's

IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1998
Abstract AI methods are introduced more and more in CIM systems. This results in intelligent CIM components - ICAD, ICAP, ICAM, ICAQ - and intelligent CIM systems (ICIM) or in intelligent manfacturing systems (ims). This new philosophy requires a lot of prerequistes and research. “ICIM” or “ims” is partially introduced in the industry but mainly for
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SMES in Alaska

1996
The application of a 1800 Megajoule and under 50 MVA Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) system is presently under consideration and development for the Anchorage Municipal Light and Power (ML&P) interconnected in the Alaska Railbelt Electrical system.
T. Aslam, Stephen F. Kral
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Funding for SMEs

Biometric Technology Today, 2011
UK biometrics companies are responding to the current economic challenges and uncertainties by looking for new ways of funding research and taking to market cutting edge technology solutions.
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SMEs and the Economy

2013
Global analysts and economic commentators all agree that one of the significant characteristics of a flourishing and growing economy is a booming small and medium enterprise (SME) sector.
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