Objective
This two year study will evaluate the competitiveness of European SMEs vis-a-vis their counterparts in East Asia (Japan, Korea and Taiwan), using enterprise benchmarking to identify the nature of their technological differences in selected low, medium and high technology manufacturing activities. It will trace observed differences within comparable activities to variations in human resource availability, development and management; the strength and relevance of network linkages with SMEs and with large enterprises; the nature and sophistication of consultancy and advisory services; links with the S&T system; the financial system supporting innovation; and cross-national, national, local and municipal government initiatives to support productivity, skill development and marketing. The detailed firm-level analysis and benchmarking will allow the identification of 'best practice' models of SME technology development; it will also provide data that can be used in statistical analysis to identify rigorously the extent and causes of deviation from the technological frontier. This will clarify the nature of the emerging competitive challenge facing European enterprises from the Asian 'Tigers', and the prospects for fruitful collaboration between them. The analysis of support systems in Asia, which are known to be strong andpervasive, but whose detailed operations are not well understood, will lead to policy recommendations for strengthening the science and technology support system for SMEs and improving the efficiency of networks and clusters in Europe. The project will create a data bank on micro-level technological activity and competence in the activities studied; this data base can later be expanded to other activities to provide inputs into S&T policy analysis in the EU. Local collaborators in each of the three Asian countries will, be selected from local research institutes. The dissemination of results will be undertaken within Europe and Asia.
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Coordinator
EH8 9LN Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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