OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Outlook 2023
Over the past few years, the global economy has suffered profound shocks that have had a marked impact on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs. While government support protected SMEs from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, new threats have emerged. Rising geopoliti...
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Paris :
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2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Outlook Series
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009754406506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Preface
- Foreword
- Table of contents
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Country groupings
- Executive summary
- 1 Recent SME developments and forthcoming challenges
- Recent SME performance has been uneven across firms, sectors and countries
- Firm dynamics have displayed marked heterogeneity across countries and sectors
- Firm entry growth slowed markedly and exits accelerated in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine
- Bankruptcies accelerated in 2022
- Micro firms have outperformed SMEs in the past two years
- Number of firms
- Start-ups
- Sales
- Value-added and employment
- Productivity and wages
- SMEs face mounting short-term challenges
- SMEs direct exposure to Ukraine and Russia is limited
- Elevated uncertainties and geopolitical tensions
- Inflation and rising costs
- Heightening labour and skill shortages
- Supply-chain pressures
- Tightened credit conditions
- Change in the nature of direct fiscal support to SMEs
- The pace of digitalisation is rapid but still brings challenges to SMEs
- The transition to a decarbonised economy requires rethinking industrial systems and business models
- References
- Part I Thematic chapters
- 2 The role of networks for SME innovation, resilience and sustainability
- SMEs need to transform and their networks can enable them to leapfrog
- SMEs are part of a complex network of networks
- Networks are critical for SME transitions towards higher productivity, resilience and sustainability
- Networks can enable SMEs to leapfrog
- SMEs can achieve greater resilience through their networks
- Greater sustainability for networking and networks for greater sustainability
- SMEs' ability to integrate networks and take advantage of them remains limited
- There is a large range of policy measures to support SME network expansion
- References
- Annex 2.A. Definitions.
- Circular economy (CE)
- Circular trade
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
- Growth
- Innovation
- Open innovation
- Resilience
- Responsible business conduct (RBC)
- Sustainability
- Annex 2.B. Networks and their impact on SME performance: Insights from the literature
- Annex 2.C. Agglomeration benefits in innovation and production networks
- Notes
- 3 Women-led firms in international trade
- Issue
- Exporting by entrepreneurs and gender export gaps
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Challenges accessing international markets
- Policies to support women business leaders in trade
- Applying a gender lens to trade agreements
- Ensuring market access for goods and services produced and consumed by women and their businesses
- Implementing trade-facilitating measures
- Ensuring inclusive access to the Internet and digital spaces
- Ensuring trade promotion services reach women exporters and cater to their needs
- Providing adequate finance, including trade finance and promoting financial literacy
- Ensuring professional and business networks are inclusive of women
- Closing data gaps
- References
- Annex 3.A. Descriptive statistics of Future of Business Survey sample
- Notes
- 4 SMEs in more resilient, sustainable and circular supply chains
- Introduction and background
- Issue: Challenges and opportunities for SMEs in existing and emerging GVCs
- SMEs can benefit from global integration
- SMEs are well placed to support the deployment of circular and sustainable models
- SMEs face challenges in leveraging opportunities from GVC integration
- Recent shocks and structural changes in GVCs
- Global supply chains are increasingly exposed
- FDI has also been affected
- Threats to GVCs are increasing in magnitude and frequency.
- Impact of recent disruptions in GVCs on SMEs
- The structural transformation in GVCs is poised to intensify
- SMEs in more resilient, sustainable and circular GVCs
- GVCs trajectories towards resilience and impact on SME ecosystems
- GVCs shifts towards sustainability and impact on SME ecosystems
- SME&
- E policy action for more resilient, sustainable and circular GVCs
- A generic approach
- Reshoring strategic activities
- Diversify the global integration of SMEs
- Regionalisation of GVCs
- Enhancing GVC sustainability and circularity
- References
- Annex 4.A. Russia and Ukraine in global trade
- Annex 4.B. Structural changes in GVCs
- Political globalisation and geopolitical context
- Climate change, fairness and sustainability
- How the rationale for organising global production networks can evolve
- Notes
- 5 Knowledge and innovation networks for SMEs and start-ups
- Introduction and background
- Issue: The importance of knowledge and innovation networks for SMEs and start-ups
- SMEs amidst shifting innovation networks: Structural and emerging trends
- Clusters are increasing SME connections
- For a few high-performing SMEs, dynamic VC markets provide strong network spillovers
- For a few high-performing SMEs, integration in - often more disruptive - R&
- D networks is intensifying
- Open innovation and partnerships continue to spread including to a broader population of SMEs
- Knowledge service providers have become key co-operation partners for many SMEs
- SMEs are operating a massive migration to the cloud and platform technologies
- A number of threats weigh on future SME capacity to build and expand linkages
- The role of public policy in shaping and strengthening SME knowledge and innovation networks.
- About one-third of policies aim at connecting SMEs to knowledge and innovation networks, with a more complementary role for other types of linkages
- There is a clear policy focus on "traditional" innovation channels and more accessible forms of strategic partnerships
- Innovation-related network policies have a strong international orientation
- Governments could use digital platforms more to strengthen SME integration into knowledge and innovation networks
- While public action displays an overall high degree of targeting, specific firm populations may fall off the radar
- References
- Annex 5.A. Additional statistical material
- Notes
- 6 Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: The role of SME ecosystems
- SME skills needs are evolving rapidly due to the digital and green transition
- Skills are key to SME competitiveness and resilience
- Skills needs are evolving rapidly, with the increasing prominence of "transversal skills"
- The accelerated digitalisation of economies and the pressure for achieving sustainability are the main drivers of changing skill needs
- Several short-term and structural factors limit SMEs' access to talent
- As labour markets tighten and demand for transversal skills increases, skill gaps and shortages have become widespread and are especially pronounced for SMEs
- Short-term shortages disproportionally impact SMEs and entrepreneurs
- Short-term shortage amplify structural challenges SMEs and entrepreneurs face in accessing skills
- Skills policies need to account for the specificities of SMEs
- Against this backdrop, commonly deployed skills policies are mostly generic in nature
- Skills ecosystems play an important role in delivering bundles of transversal skills to SMEs and entrepreneurs
- Recent policy developments are increasingly tailored to SMEs and delivered with spatial lenses.
- Conclusion
- References
- Notes
- Part II Country profiles
- 7 Reader's guide
- Reader's guide
- SME sector structure and performance
- Entrepreneurship and business dynamics
- SME indebtedness
- Women in trade and gender gap
- SME integration in GVCs, linkages with foreign markets and multinationals
- SME networks for innovation, growth and resilience
- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems
- Caveats and caution in interpretation
- References
- 8 Country Profiles
- Australia
- SME sector structure and performance
- Entrepreneurship and business dynamics
- SME indebtedness
- Women in trade and gender export gap
- Knowledge and innovation networks
- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems
- Austria
- SME sector structure and performance
- Entrepreneurship
- Women in trade and gender export gap
- Global production networks and value chains
- Knowledge and innovation networks
- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems
- Belgium
- SME sector structure and performance
- Entrepreneurship and business dynamics
- SME indebtedness
- Women in trade and gender export gap
- Global production networks and value chains
- Knowledge and innovation networks
- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems
- Canada
- SME sector structure and performance
- Entrepreneurship and business dynamics
- SME indebtedness
- Women in trade and gender export gap
- Global production networks and value chains
- Knowledge and innovation networks
- Upskilling, reskilling and finding talent: the role of SME ecosystems
- Chile
- Entrepreneurship
- SME indebtedness
- Women in trade and gender export gap
- Knowledge and innovation networks
- Colombia
- Entrepreneurship
- SME indebtedness.
- Women in trade and gender export gap.
