Success and Failure in Helping SMEs: A Three-Year Observational Study

Industry and Higher Education

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-130

  Stewardson, Dave ^a   Coleman, Shirley ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

consultancy; European regional funding; industrial statistics; process improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644532625     PISSN: 09504222     EISSN: 20436858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000003101296783     Document Type: Article

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