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Policy Support for SMEs

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  • Robert Blackburn
  • David Smallbone

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  • Robert Blackburn & David Smallbone, 2011. "Policy Support for SMEs," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 29(4), pages 571-576, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:29:y:2011:i:4:p:571-576
    DOI: 10.1068/c2904ed
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    1. B. Schoonjans & P. Van Cauwenberge & C. Reekmans & G. Simoens, 2011. "A survey on tax compliance costs of Flemish SMEs: Magnitude and determinants," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 11/707, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
    2. David Pickernell & Adrian Kay & Gary Packham & Christopher Miller, 2011. "Competing Agendas in Public Procurement: An Empirical Analysis of Opportunities and Limits in the UK for SMEs," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 29(4), pages 641-658, August.
    3. Robert A. Blackburn & David Smallbone, 2008. "Researching Small Firms and Entrepreneurship in the U.K.: Developments and Distinctiveness," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 32(2), pages 267-288, March.
    4. Robert Bennett, 2008. "SME Policy Support in Britain since the 1990s: What have We Learnt?," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 26(2), pages 375-397, April.
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