Lack of finance is one of the most important problemsof SMEs all over Europe. Insufficient financial resources are barriers to the growth and employment in the SME sector and at the same time japerdize governments efforts reaching EU targets In EU documents this is highlighted for many years and...

Supporting SMEs became one of the backbones of EU’s policy. “Small Business Act for Europe” is the key document, which decleares the strategy of the Community and at the same time is the basis of members’ national SME policies. For us it is even more important to be able to keep up at...

In this article we summerize the views of the most umportant stakeholders concerning the new long term program of the European Union: ‘Europe 2020 A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth which determines the next few years of all of the European countries and their citizens. The...

Regional policy in Flanders dates back to the late fifties. Today’s regional policy was introduced in 1994. In the regional policy of Flanders, local autonomy plays a substancial role. Subregions are contiguous territorial entities with sufficient internal socio-economic cohesion and critical...

In this article we make comments on the EU Commissions Review on “Small Business Act for Europe” which was published in February 2011 and which is the official viewpoint of the EU concerning the progress made in the implementation of SBA on European and national levels. As we have already...

An SME is able to cope with the global challenge if it runs reliable, balanced and high-standard operation in its business. There are different possible management methods for increasing the competitiveness of SMEs. In the last few years competitiveness of SMEs isalso analyzed on state level. It...