1 RETHINKING SMALL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: BETWEEN POVERTY AND GROWTH Economic growth is the prime means of creating income and employment opportunities. Where markets for products are expanding, poor people are able to establish sustainable livelihoods for themselves either by increasing their existing production and finding new products to market, or by finding employment opportunities with n...

A key constraint for growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is the business skills required to grow the enterprises through the stages of transformation. Criticism against growth stage models for SMEs is of concern, since these models contain the typical knowledge that appeals to managers of small enterprises as guidance in how to manage growth. In this article we propose the SMEAG model t...

With the continuous development of business incubator nowadays, the existing evaluation method of enterprise incubator’s hatch ability has been unable to meet the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper proposes a small and medium-sized enterprise incubator’s hatch ability evaluation model based on multiclass method, this model introduced the principal component analysis and fac...