OECD small and Medium Enterprise Outlook [antikvár]

FOREWORD The OECD SME Outlook 2002 provides an overview of trends in SME performance and policies in tiie OECD area and policy profiles for 28 member countries and the Commission ofthe European Union. Today, most governments apply a range of programmes aimed at alleviating the difficulties that SMEs experience in diverse areas (e.g. financing, technology and innovation, e-commerce, management, internationalisation) and seek to identify and implement best practice policies. The Outlook aims to broaden and deepen analysis of SME policies and highlight common lessons that can be drawn from member country experiences to ensure that they remain relevant and effective. The report also synthesises thematic work undertaken on a range of topics by the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship and within OECD's Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry: i) Enterprise Demography: Examining Business Dynamism in OECD Countries; ii) Taxation, SMEs and Entrepreneurship, iii) SMEs and Environmental Management, and iv) Global Industrial Restructuring: Implications for SMEs. For the first time, a special chapter is included on a transition economy: Romania, for this edition. The most recent SME data and key indicators for SMEs are included in the statistical annex. This 2002 edition of the OECD SME Policy Outlook, the second in a biennial series, was co-ordinated and prepared by Marian Murphy under the direction of Paul Atkinson and Marie-Florence Estimé. Contributions to Chapter 2 were made by staff of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, as follows: Dirk Pilat (Enterprise Demography: Examining Business Dynamism in OECD Countries), Frank Lee (Taxation, SMEs and Entrepreneurship), Candice Stevens (SMEs and Environmental Management), Kentaro Sakai (Global Industrial Restructuring: Implications for SMEs). Ricardo Pinto (Investment, Finance and Enterprise Programme of the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs) contributed Chapter 4, Special Focus on Transition Economies: Romania, which is based on the joint OECD-EBRD policy review on "Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Romania" (2002). The OECD Statistics Directorate collaborated in the provision of statistical material. The report is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD.