Synopsis: Entrepreneurship: Enterprise:


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Eurostat statistics on enterprises in the European union 1. Source: Entrepreneurship in the EU and beyond, European commission 2. Source:

As digital infrastructure and its applications for enterprises continue to develop, the transaction costs of collaborations will decrease

small and medium enterprises (SMES) are frequently the source of ideas for products brought to market by large corporations. 4 In Europe,

the Forum partnered with Research+Data Insights, Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise (JAYE) Europe, and the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (YES) to survey a broad range of Europeans with experience

Whether or not they go on to found businesses or social enterprises, young people who benefit from entrepreneurial learning develop business knowledge

student projects or events to inspire talent with success stories Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Europe is Europe's largest provider of entrepreneurship education programmes.

Daniel Calleja Crespo Director-General, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, European commission Neelie Kroes Vice-president and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, European commission Mark Rutte Prime minister

Selected Policy makers Contributing to the Report (in alphabetical order) 34 Enhancing Europe's Competitiveness Daniel Calleja Crespo Director-General, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, European commission The role of innovation

Within the new 7-year European research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, around €3 billion will be spent specifically on innovationdriven entrepreneurship in start-ups and established enterprises.

The new programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMES (COSME) running from 2014 to 2020 with a planned budget of €2. 3 billion will continue to provide guarantees

The recently adopted‘Estonian Entrepreneurship Growth Strategy 2020'marks innovative enterprises as a key target group.

In our terminology, they are called‘growth clients'emerging and fast-growing ambitious enterprises. For emerging enterprises it means that by the end of the second year of operation their estimated annual sales must exceed €200,

000 and their export intensity must be at least 25%.%Today, there are almost 2, 600 enterprises meeting these criteria.

Our main task is to help them increase their innovative skills, enhance development activities and help them enter exports markets.

Enterprise Estonia has established a network of salaried professional export advisers residing in major target markets,

The growth outlook and ambitiousness of enterprises is expressed by entrepreneurs'expectations concerning the increase in employee numbers as well as their ambitions on the international market.

expectations of early-stage enterprises concerning a fast increase in employee numbers (i e. more than 10 employees in five years and over 50%of growth) are lower,

Enterprise Development Programme: An all-in-one policy instrument, based on strategic client management by Enterprise Estonia, providing coaching

and grants to individual enterprises for activities ranging from R&d and innovation to export marketing Cooperation programmes (focusing on smart specialization areas):

Incentivizing co-creation, including programmes to support innovation clusters Entrepreneurship promotion: Promoting entrepreneurship as a career choice and raising general awareness on entrepreneurship Start-up Estonia programme:

Promoting the creation and growth of enterprises with global ambition Venture funds: Including a fund of funds of €120 million for business angel co-investment, venture capital and expansion capital (of this,

Forty-six per cent of all Finnish enterprises had innovation activity related to products and processes in 2008-2010.

Innovation expenditure reported by enterprises totalled €7. 3 billion in 2010. A recent success in fostering entrepreneurship:

For instance, the flagship enterprise Supercell received a €1 billion investment from Japanese investors. This proves that the quality of deal flow has improved.

The government support system for enterprises is easy and simple to use, and the taxation base is broad and simple for companies and supports growth entrepreneurship.

The goal is that Finland should have one of the best framework conditions for entrepreneurship and high growth enterprises in the world.

Key challenges that firms face include the need for effective collaboration and better mutual understanding between public research and enterprises, effective use of existing science and technological infrastructure,

Another difficulty seen by enterprises is increasing cost and impaired access to funding. However, the problems faced relatively differ among enterprises of different sizes, in particular, with micro entrepreneurs seeing easier access to funding as absolutely crucial.

Almost 25%of them highlighted this problem. With the growing size of an enterprise the importance of this issue decreases while the relevance of other difficulties increases, including severe competition, availability of skilled employees and managers,

and cost of production and labour. Key activities on an agenda to foster innovation-driven entrepreneurship in Europe:

Caroline Jenner, Chief executive officer, Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise (JA-YE) Europe Various forms of women-led economic activity are important to the growth agenda.

But the greatest impact could be delivered by increasing the number of womenfunded and women-led high-growth enterprises.

These capabilities trump more pure-play, exclusionary and reductive analytical approaches and preoccupations with overly-linear thinking and analysis. The Cambrian enterprise system must be set up so as to continuously scan Coral reefs of relationships, niches,

. eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-analysis/.6. EIM Business & Policy Research (2011), Do SMES create more and better jobs?

PDF Foundation for Entrepreneurship Young Enterprise Denmark (2013), Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in Denmark 2013 INSEAD, World Economic Forum (2013), The Global Information technology Report

-General, Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, European commission, Brussels Ding Chun, Dean, Centre for European Studies, Fudan University, People's republic of china M. Willem van Eeghen


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and through public-private linkages) Education and training systems Innovative ecosystems involving small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) Entrepreneurial culture Hubs for intellectual property,

For example, by the city's own assessment, few large enterprises exist, industrial clusters are absent,

enterprises and non-governmental organizations to get things done in the virtual space. Implementation of the strategy of innovation-driven development:

Zhuhai implemented reform of its commercial registration system and enterprise investment management system. Low unemployment:

and legal system developed sufficiently to encourage global and local enterprises to do business within its jurisdiction.

and the government-affiliated enterprises will come due between 2014 and 2016. The heated situation in the middle East region may also cause some indirect risks on Dubai,

Foreign multinational enterprises (MNES) have nearly $600 billion of investment stock in Singapore, while Singaporean MNES have about $370 billion of investment stock abroad.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) account for half of GDP and the bulk of employment.

and start-up incubators to cultivate high-tech enterprise. Financial policy Since 2010, Ningbo has sought to build

Many enterprises are in a low position on the value chain, and their capabilities in R&d, design

This demands a decisive shift to the market, to use the language of the Chinese Communist party's third plenum in November 2013 privatizing stateowned enterprises


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Wang, Associate professor Hongye Xiao, Professor Huazhang Zheng, Associate professor Colombia National Planning Department Rodrigo Moreira, Director of Enterprise Development Sara Patricia Rivera

, President Seth Twum-Akwaboah, Executive director Greece SEV Hellenic Federation of Enterprises Michael Mitsopoulos, Senior Advisor, Infrastructures and Business Environment Thanasis Printsipas, Economist

PDR Enterprise & Development Consultants Co.,Ltd Latvia Stockholm School of economics in Riga Arnis Sauka, Head of the Centre for Sustainable Development Lebanon Bader Young Entrepreneurs

LSE Enterprise Ltd Adam Austerfield, Project Director Elitsa Garnizova, Project Officer & Researcher Robyn Klingler-Vidra, Senior Researcher Uruguay Universidad ORT

Overall, Italian companies most notably small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) continue to suffer from weak access to financing (139th) that

The Survey sampling guidelines specify that the Partner Institute build a sample frame that is, a list of potential business executives from small-and medium-sized enterprises and large companies from the various Figure 2:

Competitiveness, in that early report, was defined as the ability of one enterprise to do as well as or outperform, another company or group of companies while taking into account the framework conditions in the country.

Because small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) account for a large share of economic activities in most countries,

Indeed, small enterprises, defined here as those with fewer than 50 employees, account for 27 percent of the sample in Advanced Economies and Emerging and Developing Asia and for 48 percent in Sub-saharan africa,

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Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises Pillar 2: Infrastructure 2. 01 Quality of overall infrastructure How would you assess general infrastructure (e g.,

Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises 6. 06 Number of procedures required to start a business Number of procedures required to start a business 2013 For details about the methodology employed

Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises 6. 07 Time required to start a business Number of days required to start a business 2013 For details about the methodology employed

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Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises; World Economic Forum's calculations 7. 05 Effect of taxation on incentives to work In your country, to what extent do taxes reduce the incentive to work?

Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises Pillar 9: Technological readiness 9. 01 Availability of latest technologies In your country, to what extent are the latest technologies available?


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because digitization the mass adoption of connected digital services by consumers, enterprises, and governments provides dramatic power

which can lead an enterprise into decline. How then do capable companies handle the opportunities and challenges of digitization?

and enterprises recognize the value of interoperability and scale. Each migration shifts a large amount of data production

of structured and unstructured data generated by individuals, enterprises, and public organizations is multiplying exponentially;

filter, and correlate each piece of data as it flows over the enterprise so that decisions can be made some through automation

while minimizing risks and harms to individuals and enterprises globally. Existing regulatory approaches that are based on the principles of notice

IT, Productivity and Growth in Enterprises: New Results from International Micro Data. Paper presented at the OECD Workshop on ICT and Business Performance, OECD, Paris, December 9.

or to buy an enterprise-ready version of Hadoop. If the outcome of big data analysis is mission-critical for your business,

but specifically designed, enterprise-grade servers, storage, and networking products are best for large-scale-production solutions.

Some are even predicting that big data analytics will lead to the emergence of an entirely new set of CXO roles within enterprises Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief Analytics Officer, and so on.

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Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises 2014 World Economic Forum 2nd pillar Business and innovation environment 2014 World Economic Forum 266

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Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises 2014 World Economic Forum 324 The Global Information technology Report 2014 Technical Notes and Sources 1. 09

Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises 2nd pillar: Business and innovation environment 2. 01 Availability of latest technologies*In your country, to what extent are the latest technologies available?

Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises 2. 04 Time required to start a business Number of days required to start a business 2013 Time is recorded in calendar days.

Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises 2. 05 Number of procedures required to start a business Number of procedures required to start a business 2013 A procedure is defined as any interaction of the company founders with external

Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises 2. 06 Intensity of local competition*In your country, how intense is competition in the local markets?

and the first hosted pay-by-use Enterprise Systems Management Framework, called MTAASTM. He is credited also with leading the company's incubation of a new approach to application management called ALT AMSTM and Digital System Integration for strategic application development.

, Associate professor Hongye Xiao, Professor Huazhang Zheng, Associate professor Colombia National Planning Department Rodrigo Moreira, Director of Enterprise Development Sara Patricia Rivera, Research

-Akwaboah, Executive director Greece SEV Hellenic Federation of Enterprises Michael Mitsopoulos, Senior Advisor, Infrastructures and Business Environment Thanasis Printsipas

Program Coordinator Marat Tazabekov, Chairman Lao PDR Enterprise & Development Consultants Co.,Ltd Latvia Stockholm School of economics in Riga Karlis Kreslins, EMBA Programme

, Secretary general 2014 World Economic Forum Partner Institutes The Global Information technology Report 2014 341 United kingdom LSE Enterprise Ltd


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