The OECD small and medium enterprise outlook
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are attracting increased attention in recognition of their economic role and their contribution to growth. SMEs represent over 95% of enterprises in most OECD countries, generate a substantial share of GDP and account for well over half of private sector em...
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Paris, France :
OECD Publications Services
[2000]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Overview""; ""Outlook for SME Performance""; ""SMEs in the new economy""; ""Small firms � but a large role""; ""Figure 1. Share of SMEs in business firms""; ""Figure 2. Share of SMEs in manufacturing firms, late 1990s""; ""Job creators""; ""Figure 3. Employment distribution by size class in manufacturing, late 1990s""; ""Figure 4. Production shares by size class""; ""The high performers""; ""Figure 5. Employment in high-growth firms""; ""Figure 6. Innovation by firm size""; ""Figure 7. Share of women employers""; ""Going global""
- ""Figure 8. Internet penetration rate, late 1990s""""Outlook for SME Policies""; ""Focus on entrepreneurship""; ""Table 1. Level of entrepreneurial activity""; ""Targeted approaches""; ""Box 1. SME Internet homepages""; ""Regulatory reform""; ""Table 2. Formalities for establishing a business, late 1990s""; ""Access to financing""; ""Table 3. Government venture capital programmes""; ""Fiscal incentives""; ""Drive to innovate""; ""Table 4. SME technology development and diffusion programmes""; ""Electronic tools""; ""Global markets""; ""An evaluation culture""
- ""Chapter 2. Evaluation of SME policies and Programmes """"Introduction""; ""Evaluation approaches""; ""OECD framework for evaluation""; ""SME financing schemes""; ""Comparison of evaluation methodologies""; ""Comparison of evaluation findings""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3. Thematic Reviews""; ""Profiling High-growth Firms""; ""Introduction""; ""High-growth firms and entrepreneurship""; ""The contribution of high-growth firms to job creation""; ""Figure 1. High-growth firms as a share of growing firms""; ""Figure 2. High-growth firms and their contribution to job gains""
- ""A profile of high-growth firms""""Figure 3. Employment in high-growth firms""; ""Table 1. Growing and high-growth firms by industry""; ""Figure 4. Share of dependent firms""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Financing Women Entrepreneurs""; ""Introduction""; ""Access to financing""; ""Women�s business associations""; ""Box 1. The view from women business associations""; ""Government funding programmes""; ""Table 1. Financing programmes for women entrepreneurs""; ""Table 2. Female entrepreneur statistics""; ""Table 3. Selected eligibility conditions for programmes""
- ""Value-added of programmes""""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Reforming Regulations for SMEs""; ""Introduction""; ""Trends in regulatory reform""; ""Box 1. Regulatory reform for smaller firms""; ""Specific policy areas""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Profiting from Electronic Commerce""; ""Introduction""; ""SME use of the Internet""; ""Figure 1. Internet penetration rate, late 1990s""; ""SME readiness for electronic commerce""; ""Figure 2. Firms providing ICT training, Ireland, 1999""; ""SMEs� use of electronic commerce""
- ""Figure 3. Internet usage by Danish and Finnish businesses""
