unequal. Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), some regions and social groups have lagged behind. Poland …-intensive products that incorporate little domestic value added. The coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has put additional pressures on SMEs …. A broad range of well-coordinated policies is required to boost SMEs’ internationalisation and their productivity, while …

productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is … in quality ICT education and training for students, teachers, SME workers and older people is key to address the lack of … networks between SMEs, academia and large firms through vouchers or platforms can support SMEs’ R&D and commercialisation of …

performance, including for enhancing SME productivity. It presents evidence on the use of data analytics in SMEs, discusses main … internal and external barriers to the use of data analytics by SMEs, and illustrates policy approaches to foster data …-driven decision-making in SMEs. …

-sized enterprises (SMEs). It uses data for 30 countries, drawn from the European Company Survey, the OECD Programme for International … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or … “discretionary learning” form of workplace organisation with SMEs adopting more hierarchical organisational forms. Learning …

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 …

amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remains very low and very few workers in this sector are expected to receive … a pension in retirement. Drawing on two datasets for SMEs in Viet Nam, this paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by …

Does IFI funding provide support to SMEs receiving such funding? We assess the impact of funding by the European … Investment Bank (EIB) on the performance of 5,223 SMEs in eight countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during 2008 …

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 …