The OECD small and medium enterprise outlook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small business--OECD countries--Periodicals.

Small business.

Small business--OECD countries--Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Place of Publication:

Paris, France : OECD Publications Services, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 employment. Most governments apply a range of programmes for the benefit of SMEs, aiming to alleviate their difficulties in areas such as financing, technology and innovation, management and exports. This first biennial report covers SME policy trends in 27 OECD countries and provides an assessment of

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

92-64-18942-4

OCLC:

642661547