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. …