depends on making SMEs, which account for 87% of employment, more dynamic. The productivity gap between large firms and SMEs … SMEs. …

-and-acquisition market and foster entrepreneurship. A creative economy also depends on making SMEs, which account for 87% of employment, more … government funding programmes, which discourage the expansion of SMEs. The growth of small firms also depends on resolving labour …

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 …