The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in … development and identified lessons for national level policy that can help strengthen the performance of SMEs and enhance the … creation of new SMEs. This working paper focuses on four cases studies in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Scotland and the United …

Enterprises (SMEs). These companies play an important role in shaping the dynamism of the economy's sectoral composition …

estimates on productivity gaps by firm size to show that, while SMEs are on average less productive than large companies … been investigated through three thematic workshops organised by the OECD in collaboration with the Government of Mexico …

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. …