High-Growth Enterprises: What Governments Can Do to Make a Difference (OECD Studies on SMEs and Entrepreneurship)

Foreword......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 7
Executive Summary......Page 11
Part I. Addressing the needs of high-growth enterprises......Page 13
What powers high-growth enterprises?......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
Overview of empirical literature......Page 21
Factors that drive high enterprise growth: Evidence from the country studies......Page 47
Introduction......Page 48
Key findings......Page 50
Summary of findings......Page 57
Government policies to support high-growth enterprises......Page 63
The WPSMEE Policy Survey......Page 64
Concluding remarks and policy recommendations......Page 75
Part II. Country studies on high-growth enterprises......Page 83
High-growth SMEs in Latin America's service sector: Six case studies......Page 85
SMEs, entrepreneurship, and the innovation context in Latin America......Page 86
Dynamic entrepreneurship in Latin America......Page 89
A qualitative approach to HGSMES in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)......Page 91
Concluding remarks and policy recommendations......Page 97
High-growth firms in Switzerland: Analysis of 11 firms......Page 103
Case studies of 11 businesses......Page 104
High-growth firms and employment growth......Page 113
Conclusions......Page 117
Process innovation: Driver of enterprise growth in the Czech Republic......Page 121
Introduction......Page 122
Overview of the sample......Page 123
Analysis and results......Page 125
Conclusions......Page 135
Strong customer/supplier relationships: A key to enterprise growth in Japan......Page 139
Introduction......Page 140
Empirical hypotheses......Page 141
Data and variables......Page 142
Empirical approach and results......Page 149
Interviews with HGSMEs......Page 152
Conclusions......Page 155
Finland: Intellectual asset management among high-growth SMEs......Page 159
Survey Data......Page 160
Innovation activity and HGSMEs......Page 163
Managing and protecting IA......Page 165
Summary of the use of protection practices......Page 176
Financing growth and innovation in France......Page 181
How many firms are innovative or high-growth?......Page 182
An assessment of the financial constraint......Page 184
A system based on complementarity......Page 187
Financing and Proximity......Page 191
Innovative and high-growth SMEs policies in France: A strong commitment of the state......Page 193
A structural framework: From individual support to a collective dynamic......Page 195
The financing of innovative firms in Canada......Page 205
Data......Page 206
Results......Page 208
Summary and conclusions......Page 219
Are innovation firms at a credit disadvantage? The evidence from Italy......Page 221
Introduction......Page 222
Research design......Page 223
Results of the econometric estimates......Page 229
Conclusions......Page 232