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SMEs

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SMEs

Small And Medium-sized Enterprises | SMEs | Effective Knowledge Sources | Productivity Nexus | Innovation Constraints And Determinants For SMEs | Access To Finance

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is a big part of the economy in many Asian countries. ERIA examines factors that could help improve SMEs, such as effective knowledge sources, productivity nexus, innovation constraints and determinants for SMEs, and  access to finance. ERIA also leads research around government policies and regulatory support for SMEs like SME trade policy, SME investment policy, and competition laws.

Publications

4 September 2023
The book dives into issues surrounding the development of the creative industry and tourism by micro, small, and [...]
21 April 2023
ASEAN’s real gross domestic product (GDP) had declined sharply due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The economic [...]
27 March 2023
We conducted randomised experiments to provide management training for 312 small Vietnamese manufacturers in 2010 and repeatedly collected follow-up data [...]
2 February 2023
This study employs data from the Viet Nam Enterprise Survey (VES) for 2007 and 2011) to examine the effect of [...]
15 November 2022
This report assesses women’s entrepreneurship trends in Eastern Indonesia compared with national and other provincial [...]
21 October 2022
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member countries differ in terms of the level of development. To ensure the [...]
16 September 2022
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused trade disruptions; a drop in foreign direct investment; and scarring effects [...]
14 June 2022
This paper empirically examines the link between the heterogeneity of firms and their probability of obtaining interfirm trade [...]
31 May 2022
Innovation-driven entrepreneurship enables people and companies to pursue global opportunities based on innovative processes, products, or services. Studies [...]
22 March 2022
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has hit micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) hard. The estimated economic impact [...]
22 February 2022
SMEs are the most important source of employment in all ASEAN countries, but a lack of access to [...]
27 January 2022
It is well documented that firms that participate in global value chains (GVCs) are larger and more productive, [...]
26 January 2022
In 2021, the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and Curated Connectors, a Singapore-based start-up, hosted [...]
25 January 2022
In 2021, the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) – together with Curated Connectors, a Singapore [...]
8 December 2021
This policy brief highlights the role of social enterprises in promoting social impact and inclusion for people with [...]
19 August 2021
One of the significant challenges small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face is their difficulty in accessing finance. One [...]
1 July 2021
The Summary of ERIA Research Projects 2020-2021 provides an overview of both new and ongoing projects that [...]
26 January 2021
Many different stakeholders have an important role to play to build back better for the ASEAN post-pandemic recovery, [...]
16 December 2020
Using the Small and Medium Enterprise Survey in Vietnam and three proxies of innovation, we study the impact [...]
23 November 2020
Micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) represent between 97% and 99% of firms and between 60% and 80% of total employment [...]
14 August 2020
This paper analyses the economic impact of globalisation in Indonesia from the end of the 1960s to date. [...]
25 October 2019
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for about 97–99 per cent of total enterprises and 60–80 per cent [...]
22 March 2018
As the G20/OECD High-Level Principles of SMEs Financing state, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), including micro-enterprises, are [...]
11 April 2017
The goal of every business, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is success. To succeed, SMEs must have [...]
23 May 2016
ERIA Microdata Research FY 2013 examines whether and how globalization has differential effects on small and (or versus) large [...]
10 December 2015
Investing in workers and firms as learning centres for industrial upgrading is important for economic, social, and cultural [...]
4 December 2015
International production networks in manufacturing, particularly in machinery industries, have rapidly developed over the last two decades, resulting [...]
26 November 2015
Economic development policies that were export-focused and biased toward unbalanced growth were initially implemented through government-led initiatives in [...]
7 May 2015
ASEAN has successfully reduced tariffs but not non-tariff measures (NTMs). Efforts to reduce NTMs always hit the debate [...]
2 July 2014
This paper examines how the Japanese firms' export decision is affected by the availability of information on export [...]
5 June 2014
  Working Group MembersPROF. FUKUNARI KIMURA (PROJECT SUPERVISOR): Chief Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia ([...]
20 May 2014
Using a large firm-level dataset from the Chinese manufacturing industry, this paper studies the productivity gap and productivity [...]
20 May 2014
 The main purpose of this study is to examine whether the relationship between exporting and productivity differs [...]
8 May 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis of potential constraints to SMEs upgrading their capability to innovate, and assesses [...]
2 May 2014
In this paper, we investigate the dynamic nature of trading using Japanese firm-level data. Specifically, we examine state [...]
11 October 2013
This paper sheds light on the issue of SME financing in selected Asian economies using a unique sample [...]
26 December 2012
A common trend in the ASEAN region is that there are a small number of large corporations that [...]
6 June 2012
This paper investigates the direction of causality between export market participation and innovation using firm level data from [...]
1 May 2012
  Working Group MembersDR. SHUJIRO URATA (PROJECT SUPERVISOR): Senior Research Advisor to Executive Director, Economic Research Institute for [...]
1 March 2011
How is globalization related to innovation? Is globalization a cause of innovation, or is innovation a cause of [...]
1 March 2011
Findings from ERIA's SME research project in FY 2009 confirms that access to finance is amongst the most [...]
2 October 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis of small and medium enterprise (SME) participation in production networks. It gauges [...]
2 August 2010
This paper examines the effects of internal and external sources of knowledge on the introduction of new products [...]
1 March 2010
PROFESSOR FUKUNARI KIMURA (PROJECT SUPERVISOR): Chief Economist, Economic Research Institutefor ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Indonesia. Professor, Faculty [...]
1 March 2009
RPR-2008-5 Front coverProject MembersContentsExecutive SummaryChapter 1 Industrial Development Strategy in CLMVChapter 2 Special Economic Zones and Economic CorridorsChapter 3 Border [...]
1 March 2008
MR. PETER BAILEY: Research Economist, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), New Zealand.DR. LIU XIANGFENG : Senior [...]
1 March 2008
DR. JENNY CORBETT: Executive Director, Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC), Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University ([...]

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