This paper assesses the role of energy audits in promoting energy-efficiency measures in SMEs. It benefits from the … voluntary agreements) for promoting energy audits in SMEs. …

'- one of the biggest obstacles to this type of investment. However, on average only 30% of SMEs said to have carried out an …

small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the 28 member countries of the European Union between 2008 and 2014. We use a … economic and financial performance of the beneficiary SMEs. …

innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or … new to the market. To further explore why young SMEs are not more active in innovation, we explore their access to finance … partly addressing the external financing access problem for leading innovators, but not for young SMEs. …