Investment Association (KITIA) was established to implement a matching fund program (MFP) to help SMEs with this undertaking … bankruptcy rates in relation to those SMEs that could not attract matching funds. Propensity score matching was used to eliminate … change of structure can provide better performance of MFP in terms of IPO success and bankruptcy of matched SMEs. Copyright …

Making SMEs and start-ups a driver of growth and job creation requires a number of policies to improve the performance … of SMEs, whose labour productivity in the manufacturing sector has fallen to less than a third of that in large companies …. The large-scale support for SMEs should shift from supporting the survival of firms to raising productivity. Measures to …

depends on making SMEs, which account for 87% of employment, more dynamic. The productivity gap between large firms and SMEs …, which benefit from a wide range of public support, is widening. SME policies should be streamlined and improved to promote … SMEs. …