The Collaboration of SMEs through Clusters as Defense against Economic Crisis

Table 1

Respondent results from questionnaire survey.

Hypothesis	Answer “yes” of SMEs	Answer “yes ” of large companies
SMEs are important in the national economy of any country	47	16
SMEs are important in national economy of small countries, like Greece	49	19
The university research is necessary for any company	26	15
The university research is necessary for the SMEs	30	13
SMEs can be stronger if they apply the university research in the market	31	13
SMEs can be competitive to large enterprises	21	6
SMEs can be competitive to large enterprises in the period of crisis	18	4
The role of clusters is important	41	18
The role of clusters of SMEs is important	42	16
The clusters of SMEs can be competitive against large enterprises	40	13
With the clusters the SMEs can be stronger and self-funding against economic crisis	37	13