Pro‐growth small businesses: learning “architecture”

Working and learning together: ICT supported learning in small businesses

Information and communications technologies (ICT) sit at the centre of lifelong learning policy in the UK. Considerable public expenditure is being applied to the creation of on-line learning and on-line learner information services. These are seen as having a major role in stimulating learning in the small business sector which has traditionally proved reluctant to engage in structured program...

PRO-GROWTH SMALL BUSINESSES: LEARNING 'ARCHITECTURE' Submitted to: Journal of Management Development

Knowledge Transfer and Small Businesses

Co-opetition, simultaneous co-operation and competition, entails sharing knowledge that may be a key source of competitive advantage. However, sharing is dangerous when the knowledge might be used for competition. Levy et al (1999) show how a game-theoretic framework can help analyse inter-organisational knowledge sharing under conditions of co-opetition. This research extends this work into th...

Information Security for Small Businesses

New technology allows small businesses to use many of the same information systems employed by large enterprises. In doing so small businesses open themselves up to many threats that were traditionally associated with large corporations. It is imperative to their continued success that they recognize these pitfalls and take steps to address this issue. This paper examines some of those threats ...

AM Challenge for Small Businesses

In conjunction with America Makes, the nation’s leading and collaborative partner in additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing technology and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Penn State’s Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition is sending an open invitation to Small to Medium Enterp...