three key issues faced by policy makers - how to stimulate demand for business development services from firms and …

This paper provides an analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on SMEs and entrepreneurs, and the SME and … lessons learned for policy going forward, to assist governments build evidence-based policies to support SME recovery and …

the context of the OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Strategy. …

The heterogeneity and highly diverse nature of the SMEs population represent a core challenge for SME policy frameworks … policy making. The paper presents a number of actionable typologies, as examples of how policy relevant SME and … entrepreneurship typologies could be developed. The paper was developed in the context of the OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Strategy. …

, workforce skills and business linkages in enhancing SME productivity. The paper is structured as follows. First, it presents … the main firm-level drivers of SME productivity, i.e. factors internal to the firm that directly affect SME performance … SME productivity, on the one hand, and managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages, on the other, which has …

Ombudsmen in OECD countries have a tradition which dates back to the 1960s. However, the establishment of SME … model. Countries interested in introducing an SME ombudsman are, therefore, faced with an important choice about which model …-type of SME ombudsman office may result in an institutional overlap with other government offices with similar …

This report investigates the development of the Blockchain ecosystem in Israel, against the background of the SME and … introducing blockchain-based services in the Israeli market, opportunities and challenges to their business development, sectors … and firms being targeted, and relevance for enhancing digitalisation and productivity in the SME population at large. The …

This report investigates the development of the blockchain ecosystem in Italy, against the background of the SME and … introducing blockchain-based services in the Italian market, opportunities and challenges to their business development, sectors … and firms being targeted, and relevance for enhancing digitalisation and productivity in the SME population at large. The …