Export strategies as a factor of SME growth in Croatia

Račić, Domagoj; Aralica, Zoran; Redžepagić, Denis

doi:10.1504/ijeim.2008.019531

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“…The paper support the finding from Racic, Aralica, & Redzepagic (2008) who found that the 'ideal type' of a Croatian export-oriented SME tends to operate in medium high-technology manufacturing and services, produce specialised capital and consumer goods servicing specific market niches, export independently, sell products directly to specialised customers of special products, cooperate with foreign enterprises, perform intramural Research and Development (R&D) activities, innovate product mix by including products with a higher value added and introduce new technologies, but without limiting their innovation activities on the acquisition of technology.…”

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Product and Process Innovation - A Cross Country Comparison Between Croatia, Poland and the UK

Dabić¹,

Razum²,

Brečić³

2016

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This paper focuses on the determining the product and process innovation in three different countries: Croatia, Poland and the UK. The purpose of this study is to investigate significant differences among companies that report product and process innovation relative to different market contexts that they operate in and their reported R&D intensity. Using the survey data of 380 entrepreneurs and business executives from three countries: Croatia, Poland and the UK three regression models have been tested as well as significant differences among groups. The empirical results indicate conditional similarities in Croatian, Polish and British firms and respective investment into R&D. Related to product innovation, this study confirmed that UK is significantly better than Croatia, and for process innovation results revealed that UK has significantly better score than both Croatia and Poland. Regarding R&D intensity results indicate that Croatia reports higher levels than Poland.

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confidence: 90%