Small Firms, Business Services Growth and Regional Development in the United Kingdom: Some Empirical Findings

Keeble, David; Bryson, John R.; Wood, Peter

doi:10.1080/00343409112331346627

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“…High-end services is, in employment size, slightly more than 630,000. As illustrated in several studies (e.g., Noyelle and Stanback 1984;Keeble et al 1991;Klaesson and Johansson 2008), high-end services are concentrated in metropolitan regions. Sweden's three metropolitan areas (Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö municipalities) constitute about 40% of total employment in high-end services.…”

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confidence: 97%

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Start-ups and employment dynamics within and across sectors

Andersson

Noseleit

2009

Small Bus Econ

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“…They also illustrate that service employment increases with per capita income. At the regional level, knowledge-intensive services are concentrated in large urban regions and metropolitan areas (see, e.g., Noyelle 1982;Noyelle and Stanback 1984;Keeble et al 1991;Sassen 2006;Klaesson and Johansson 2008).…”

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Start-ups and employment dynamics within and across sectors

Andersson

Noseleit

2009

Small Bus Econ

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“…Business advisor is a person who known to have skill in specified field and communicate the knowledge to the business owner (Schaper & Vollery, 2004 (Keeble, 1991)'.…”

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Antecedents to the Utilisation of the Government Business Support Services: A Literature Review

Yusoff¹,

Zainol

2012

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The Government Business Support Services (GBSS) plays important role in fostering economic development in Malaysia. With the aim to strenghten SME's performance the government has spent a substantial amount of money on SME support programs via their various agencies. The paper begins with brief explanation on the concept of business support services which, covering the supplier of services, type of services offered and services coverage. The study further discussed about factors identified to influence SMEs in utilising business support services. Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, bureaucracy, location, advisors' knowledge and length of service are among the factors to influence the decision. Most of the findings were result of the studies which were conducted in western side of the globe among developed countries. There are dearth literatures in Asian countries in particular among developing countries. Therefore, the gap was identified to include cultures and local environment as factors to moderate the usage of business support services beside the owners' characteristics for future study.

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“…bearing upon the use of knowledge networks. Numerous studies find that the geographical proximity of external knowledge sources has an impact upon the firm's decision to use them (e.g., Keeble et al, 1991;Mackun and MacPherson, 1997;Bennett et al, 2000), and the availability of knowledge sources vary by location. In view of this, dummies are included to distinguish firm location by 12 NUTS1 government regions in the UK.…”

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Network evolution and the spatiotemporal dynamics of knowledge sourcing

Huggins

Izushi

Prokop

et al. 2015

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Knowledge accessing from external organisations is important to firms, especially entrepreneurial ones which often cannot generate internally all the knowledge necessary for innovation. There is, however, a lack of evidence concerning the association between the evolution of firms and the evolution of their networks. The aim of this paper is to begin to fill this gap by undertaking an exploratory analysis of the relationship between the vintage of firms and their knowledge sourcing networks. Drawing on an analysis of firms in the UK, the paper finds some evidence of a U-shaped relationship existing between firm age and the frequency of accessing knowledge from certain sources. Emerging entrepreneurial firms tend to be highly active with regard to accessing knowledge for a range of sources and geographic locations, with the rate of networking dropping somewhat during the period of peak firm growth. For instance, it is found that firms tend to less frequently access knowledge sources such as universities and research institutes in their own region during a stage of peak turnover growth. Overall, the results suggest a complex relationship between the lifecycle of the firm and its networking patterns. It is concluded that policymakers need to become more aware that network formation and utilisation by firms is likely to vary dependent upon their lifecycle position.

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Small Firms, Business Services Growth and Regional Development in the United Kingdom: Some Empirical Findings

Cited by 110 publications

References 12 publications

Start-ups and employment dynamics within and across sectors

Start-ups and employment dynamics within and across sectors

Antecedents to the Utilisation of the Government Business Support Services: A Literature Review

Network evolution and the spatiotemporal dynamics of knowledge sourcing

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