And enterprises are important because they deliver innovation. But ultimately, innovation is what creates social value.
Innovation can emerge in places and from people outside of the scope of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise.
therefore, EU policy, social enterprises contribute to social cohesion, employment and the reduction of inequalities,
2008) noted, the underlying objective of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises is to create social value that is seen as the creation of benefits
Seemingly, the EU Commission sees social enterprises as often having an innovative nature, through the goods or services they offer,
which is open to social enterprises. Additionally, EU funding can be found under the EU Structural and Investment funds.
Framework conditions The European commission aims to improve the conditions for social innovation and social enterprises in Europe, for instance through the EU single market, the Social Business Initiative and its 11 key actions.
6) SEFORIS Social Enterprise as Force for more Inclusive and Innovative Societies; Social Innovation in Europe ESDN Quarterly Report No. 36 15 (7) Third Sector Impact The Contribution of the Third Sector to Europe†s Socioeconomic Development;(
Social Innovation in Europe ESDN Quarterly Report No. 36 16 SEFORIS (Social Enterprise as Force for more Inclusive and Innovative Societies.
The project seeks to understand the potential of social enterprise in the EU and beyond to improve the social inclusiveness of society through greater stakeholder engagement,
promotion of civic capitalism and changes to social service provision through a. investigation of key processes within social enterprises for delivering inclusion
innovation and behavioural change and b. investigation of formal and informal institutional context, including political, cultural and economic environments and institutions directly and indirectly supporting social enterprises.
The individual Transition Initiatives and the projects they create can become social enterprises or other forms of organisation.
and build new shared enterprises. The Social Innovation Park presents itself as †a place where businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofit entities form a community with a common purpose:
SI Park works mainly in the development of large scale social enterprises, generating high local impact
and spread the new social enterprises. Three main facilities are well representative of the SI Park†s innovative structure:(
and,(3) the Social Enterprise Generator. 1) Social Innovation Laboratory (G-Lab) SI Park hosts a Laboratory for identifying emerging social tendencies (G-Lab) applying participatory democracy methodologies.
organizations and enterprises. The Social Innovation Academy offers regularly-scheduled programs: Intensive Training for Third Sector Leaders, project-based education,
3) Social Enterprise Generator Collaborating entities within the SI Park are offered the opportunity to incubate new social enterprises
Social enterprises seek to serve the community†s interest rather than profit maximization; the underlying objective is,
Small Enterprise Development 6 (2), 16†26. Wall street journal (1998) Microcredit arrives in Africa, but can it match Asian success?
The increasing emphasis placed on the role of the digital capability for the European recovery (European commission 2010b) raises the question of how the digital agenda can effectively engage the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector
even though 49%of SMES already exchange data in an automated fashion with other ICT systems outside their own enterprise (Giannakouris and Smihily 2010).
and a general resurgence in enterprise activity have provided a supportive environment for the incubation of a new system of financing businesses:
and social enterprises will ensure that social lending platforms, specifically aimed at small firms, become a credible alternative to bank funding.
and penalising a significant proportion of enterprises through wider adoption of any of the digital solutions discussed in this report.
Annual report on Eu Small and Medium-sized Enterprises 2009, online report,<http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-analysis
<http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/files/com712 en. pdf>,accessed 26 september 2011. European commission (2010e), Internationalisation of European SMES, online report,<http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/sme/market-access/files/internationalisation of european smes final en. pdf,
>accessed 26 september 2011. European commission (2011), †E-Invoicingâ€, online text,<http://ec. europa. eu/internal market/payments/einvoicing/index en. htm>,accessed 26 september 2011.
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This guide is a practical and comprehensive introduction to eco-innovation addressed primarily to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES.
PRE-SME€ Promoting Resource Efficiency in Small-& Medium-Sized Enterprises: Industrial training handbook Figure 5:
¢â€ Promoting Resource Efficiency in Small & Medium Sized Enterprises is an industrial training handbook.
A guide to eco-innovation for SMES and business coaches. 25 eco-innovation observatory RREUSE€¢is a European umbrella for social enterprises with activities in reuse,
and cost avoidance Invest in material efficiency. •German enterprises that reduced their use of metal achieved average savings of â 72,000 per year10.
10 big questions about your eco-innovation www. bsk-cic. co. uk/uploads/assets/media/documents/e77d55492e6e69 4e04a2ffe62f8a3c972f27a79d. pdf Enterprise Europe Network shares
and •licensing. portal. enterprise-europe-network. ec. europa. eu EUREKA is a European network that supports businesses carrying •out R&d. www. eurekanetwork. org/supporting
PRE-SME€ Promoting Resource Efficiency in Small-& Medium-Sized Enterprises: Industrial training handbook p. 22:
The EU development strategy on social innovation is to connect research organisations, with innovation agencies and with other types of intermediary enterprises:
or social enterprises are getting stronger. They attract growing attention, funding, and great expectations from citizens, from governments and from international funding bodies.
The analysis of the interplay between governments, NGOS, development agencies, industry and social enterprises is called multi-stakeholder analysis. It would be incorrect to see social innovation as a new or isolated concept or as a disruptive innovation.
DG Enterprise funds a social innovation platform (circa 5000 users) and organizes a competition in honour of social innovator Diogo Vasconcelos.
For example the Social Business Initiative is related a policy activity at the level of the enterprise (or firm) and market legislation:
Considering the typology of organisation engaged, 194 are social enterprises, charities or foundation, 183 are businesses,
Phd, FRCPATH, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise RAPPORTEURS: MASSIMILIANO GRANIERI Assistant professor at the University of Foggia Law school ANDREA RENDA Research Fellow, CEPS TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword...
http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/files/swd effectiveness. pdf A NEW APPROACH TO INNOVATION POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 15 Box 1. Key enabling
Available data 6 See European Innovation Scoreboard 2009 at http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/document. cfm?
the European patent can be granted to up to 37 contracting states. 15 The European parliament of Enterprises (Eurochambres) debated
Enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve greater benefit from standards and from involvement in standardisation, Rotterdam School of management, Erasmus University, at http://www. ecap-sme. org/documenti/primapagina
Also NORMAPME (European Office of Crafts, Trades and Small and Medium sized Enterprises for Standardisation) reported that finding information about standards †including
http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/files/express/exp 384 express report final distrib en. pdf. The Expert Panel for the Review of the European Standardisation System (EXPRESS) comprised 30 individual
Electrotechniques (European Committee for Electro-technical Standardisation) CRT Climate-Related Technology DG Directorate General (of the European commission) DG ENTR Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry
Enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve greater benefit from standards and from involvement in standardisation, Rotterdam School of management, Erasmus University, 2009 (http://www. ecap-sme. org/documenti
European commission (2009), European Innovation Scoreboard 2009 (http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/document. cfm?
a vision for 2020, Report of the Expert Panel for the Review of the European Standardisation System, exp384, February (http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/files/express
Hunter R&d and Chair Glaxosmithkline jacqueline. hunter@gsk. com Mr. Michael Jacob Head of Section Ministry of Enterprise, Energy & Communications michael. jacob@enterprise
. eu Ms. Lotta Liljelund Head of Section Division Research, Innovation & Industry Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, Sweden A NEW APPROACH TO INNOVATION POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Today networking has moved towards strategic enterprise networks (e g. Jarillo 1993; Mchugh et al. 1995; Hines et al. 2000.
These kinds of problems are sometimes real in enterprises where business developers follow all the new waves and"trendy"business methods like
Technological development is not easy, especially for small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMES. Technological development needs a lot of effort on the part of a company.
Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) are no more immune to the challenges that the globalization brings about.
Barriers to Innovation, Globalization of Innovation, Internationalization of R&d, Research & development, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) This Paper should be referred to as following:
4 2. 2 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMES...5 2. 3 Connecting SMES to Innovation...
Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) are no more immune to the challenges that the globalization brings about.
Three Phases of a Simplified Innovation Process 2. 2 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMES) The term â€oesmall and medium-sized enterprises†(SMES) consists of two components:
An enterprise, as defined by the European commission (EC) in Article 1 of its recommendation on â€oedefinition of micro,
which represented 99%of all enterprises in the enlarged European union of 25 countries while providing around 75 million jobs (EC, 2003b).
In Germany, according to Ifm Bonn1, SMES accounted for 99.7%of all enterprises in year 2005
Recent calculations by the authors of this paper, based on Germany†s official â€oestatistics portal†data, show that the high percentage of SMES amongst all enterprises continues to remain high.
As on 31.12.2006 large firms (with 250 employees or more) constituted a miniscule 0. 33%of all enterprises.
Of 3, 215,238 enterprises active on the aforementioned date an overwhelming 3, 204,519 were SMES (with less than 250 employees.
and Idw (2004). 2. 3 Connecting SMES to Innovation Notwithstanding their large share in all enterprises
For instance only 39.1%of the total turn over generated by all enterprises in Germany in 2005 went into SMES€ account (Ifm, 2007b.
Commission Recommendation of 6 may 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, Annex Title I †DEFINITION OF MICRO,
SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSION€, European commission (2003/361/EC). EC (2003b:
7 Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisations. pdf. txt 9 H2020 WP 2014-2015 Innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises Revised
enterprises. pdf. txt¡Open innovation in SMES-Prof. Wim Vanhaverbeke. pdf. txt-Open innovation in SMES Trends, motives and management challenges. pdf. txt c-Open innovation in SMES Trends-motives and management
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for about 25 enterprises •Investment: 8. 6 Million euro •Start of Construction: December 2009
-sized enterprises Education and Basic Research Natural science Institutes Research and Development Non-university scientific institutes
The Klaipeda State Seaport Authority is a Government enterprise and Ministry of Transport controls it
innovative enterprises collaborating with others and the number of public †private co-publications Furthermore, the study looks for qualitative evidence in secondary sources and highlights some important
the percent of innovative enterprises collaborating with others for innovation measures the flow of knowledge between public research institutions and
with the highest scores for the percent of innovative enterprises engaged in collaboration The Vlaams Gewst (BE2) region in Belgium is the absolute leader in this group,
that offers incentives to enterprises to purchase services from knowledge institutes to improve innovation processes, the Business to Science Portal initiative through which
evidence that the knowledge diffusion from universities to enterprises isn†t functioning optimally yet (Erawatch country profile:
European commission, DG Enterprise and Industry, Brussels. Available from http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/files/ris-2012 en. pdf
Melin G.,Fridholm, T.,HÃ¥KANSSON A.,Jansson, T.,Stern P, . and N. Thorell (2012): Erawatch
I. Proportion of Product and Process Innovation (enterprises...14 II. TOTAL INNOVATION EXPENDITURES (2010)..15
enterprises (2010)..6 Table 2: Proportion of total expenditures on innovation by SMES and large firms (2010) 7
enterprises cooperation active engaging in product and process innovation. The tables and figures below are sourced from Eurostat available aggregates of the last edition of
process innovative enterprises engaged in cooperation divided by size class. As the table shows, small and medium enterprises cooperate on innovation in about the 34 per cent
of cases (EU-27 average. In 13 countries SMES were innovative and cooperating as much on product and process innovation as large firms.
innovative enterprises (2010 COUNTRY SMES LARGE Austria 0, 4708 0, 5531 Belgium 0, 4747 0, 4692
creative work undertaken within the enterprise that increases knowledge for developing new and improved goods or services and processes,
enterprise In 2010, the EU-25 average proportion of intramural R&d expenditures by SMES was
outside the enterprise. The average level of outsourced investment for SMES was slightly lower than the average internal expenditures:
of the proportion of enterprises engaging in product and process innovation Despite our analysis was bounded by data availability,
http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/files/ius-2013 en. pdf Griffith R.,Elena Huergo, Jacques Mairesse,
I. PROPORTION OF PRODUCT AND PROCESS INNOVATION (ENTERPRISES Source: Eurostat, DIW econ, London Economics, MIOIR
solution â'recuperation of the solution by local artisan or enterprise â'improve -ment of the solution by an NGO â'improvement, standardization, commercial
/4 http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/files/epsis-2013 en. pdf Note, the European PSI categories are in
Social Enterprise Clinics Improve access to medical services in poor countries to provide universal provision of basic medical services, at low cost or on
Work Integration Social Enterprises as a tool for promoting inclusion), to help create new forms of
12 http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/sme/promoting-entrepreneurship/social-economy /13 http://www. isede-net. com/content/social-economy/wise-work-integration-social-enterprises-tool-promoting
-inclusion 19 which is recruiting so-called †ambassadors†from enterprises, chambers of commerce, business federations, social partner organisations, public agencies and research institutions to raise
awareness about workplace innovation and its benefits. 14 Roles and impacts of ICT There is much agreement about some of the main impacts of ICT on employment.
14 http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/policy/workplace-innovation/euwin/index en. htm 15 See Tepsie Deliverable D8. 1:
and about 20%are social enterprises 6. Improved jobs and work (quality and remuneration x Mission Leben:
PPCPS) and models of social economy enterprises. The case has central and local government funding, the outsourcing of ICT provision
-Started in 2010 by nonprofit company (social enterprise incubated in Open Data Institute, some foundation funding, other
x How to ensure access to relevant data for the use of social enterprises and the potential for Social
enterprises to feed back into the loop of formal health and social care x Is there a digital divide issue?
better Health, UK86 who run social enterprises that deliver healthcare; a for profit medical care-Derbyshire
Health united provides after hrs access to doctors (UK) 87 or Social Enterprise Clinics-Penda Health88 offer
Enterprises Ltd Personal -ised health & smarter patient environ -ments Patient Briefcase DK) 99 A mobile solution to
Enterprise Clinics Improve access to medical services in poor countries to provide universal provision of basic
main driver for social enterprise clinics. This tool gives to the people access to new form of medical services which wouldn†t be possible without
The examples covered in this chapter vary from private sector initiatives to social enterprise run solutions.
The Social Enterprise Clinics are initiated either by a company (Access Afya) or by individual people (Penda Health.
exemplify how transformational the use of ICT can be, in particular one case study stands out †the social enterprise
Here research across a number of examples was undertaken to exemplify a successful social enterprise driven, ICT enabled phenomena,
Kopo, a social enterprise in East Africa, to collect M-PESA payments and more patients use the service as
x Lifespring, India-Lifespring chose Red hat Enterprise Linux, JBOSS Enterprise Middleware, and a number of
Red hat certified, enterprise-class, open source software solutions to build its entire IT infrastructure Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organisation from vendor lock in,
Every person treated in a Social Enterprise clinic would otherwise not have been treated, Cell slider is an
enterprise clinics give poor patients access to local medical capacity and at the same time build medical capability by
enterprise clinics, which are highly successful in developing countries but also could be a model for affordable
a Social Enterprise clinic would otherwise not have been treated, Cell slider is an example where the power of
The examples covered in this chapter vary from private sector initiatives to social enterprise run solutions.
The Social Enterprise Clinics are initiated either by a company (Access Afya) or by individual people (Penda Health.
enterprises are emerging that can help on both counts Social enterprises aid innovation in education written by Tim Smedley in the Guardian, 12-august 2013
Figure 7. 1: The 21st Century classroom107 Strategic issues, trends and challenges Even as the economy and much of the rest of society are being transformed in countries around the world
enterprises Belu Water, a small UK based social enterprise which sells bottled water and donates all it†s
profits to Wateraid and has pledged to raise £1m by 2020 How social innovation takes place
social enterprises to create new jobs and provide solutions for social problems 5. 3. Innovation and knowledge
which account for the majority of enterprises in the Catalan industrial sector, should lead the recovery of economic activity and job
traditions, and in which nearly 98%of all enterprises are SMES, cluster policies are vital
With a production system based on small enterprises that have considerable differences in size and productivity compared to both traditional European and new
enterprises in Catalan industry, the Government promotes projects with high economic impact and similarly high capacity to draw in other companies, both forward (clients
According to the European Charter for Small Enterprises, education and training are vital for fostering the entrepreneurial spirit.
Government action focuses particularly on the establishment of enterprises and on cooperatives and self-employed work.
vital to establish new, technology-based enterprises. In order to encourage the flow of know-how generated at universities
new, technology-based enterprises. These measures include advisory services for projects, incentives and research programme contracts
relationship to social enterprises (e g. Murillo et al. 2013 It is beyond the scope of this book to argue for one particular interpretation among the many
the evolution of privacy regimes and how governments and enterprises can operate on a global scale to influence the privacy standards of network-centric systems and the related
Publics to Formal Social Enterprises?'.'Journal of Peer Production 1 (3 Dourish, P. & Bellotti, V. 1992)' Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces
private enterprise to provide low proï tability Ëoe Protecting security, privacy, and intellectual property rights Given the sensitive nature of healthcare
private enterprises. Using Finland as a case study, Kimmo Levã¤examines the three stages of digitisation for museums, placing an
enterprises where a buyer can be found for almost anything, times are very different Museums face a new and interesting task
enterprises For the past five years Europeana has developed from a political aspiration to unite
or business network contract, is an agreement between two or more enterprises that share the common goal of
Board, European Design Innovation Initiative, DG Enterprise and Industry, 2012 http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/files/design/design-for-growth-and-prosperity-report en. pdf
Horizon 2020 Expert Advisory Group â€oeinnovation in SMES€: Consultation on Next EU Strategic Work Programme 2016-2017
componentsâ (particularlyâ theâ shareâ ofâ highâ growthâ enterprises) Â proposedâ byâ theâ Commission, Â andâ ultimatelyâ inâ growthâ andâ jobsâ acrossâ Europe.
schemeâ shouldâ alsoâ beâ putâ inâ placeâ toâ fundâ †graduateâ innovationâ assistants† inâ enterprises, Â
DG Enterprise and Industry April 2013 2 Content Content...2 Foreword...4 A business landscape in transition...
enterprises, universities and governments become increasingly connected in the digital world. Digital is changing people†s lives:
Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General European commission 5 A business landscape in transition The European business landscape:
Representing 99.8%of all enterprises, SMES1 are the backbone of this service-driven economy From Table 1, it is clear that the typical EU enterprise is a SME,
or more specifically, a micro -enterprise with less than 10 employees In employment terms, almost 67%of workers are employed by SMES
of which 45%are employed by micro-enterprises, 30%by small companies and the remaining 25%by medium
-sized companies. Additionally, according to a study analysing the role that SMES play in creating more and better jobs, 85%of the net new jobs in the EU between 2002 and 2010 were created
Table 1 †Number of enterprises, SME employment and gross valued added in EU 27 (2010
Annual report on EU Small and Medium sized Enterprises 2010/2011 1 According to EU recommendation 2003/361, a small and medium-sized company or SME is defined as any company
micro enterprises with 1 to 10 employees and a turnover or a balance sheet total less than 2 million euros, small enterprises with 10-49 employees and a
turnover or a balance sheet total between 2 and 10 million euros and medium-sized enterprises, having 50-249
employees and a turnover less than 50 million euros or a balance sheet total less than 43 million euros Micro Small Medium SME Large
Enterprises Number 19 198 539 1 378 401 219 252 20 796 192 43 034
of enterprises and employment 6 Table 2 illustrates the size of six different industry clusters2 in terms of the percentage of the total
Small and medium-sized enterprises are highly dependent on entrepreneurs, i e. individuals who have the ideas
each stage of enterprise development and support the growth of digital entrepreneurial ventures 5. Boost the digitally powered single market.
Digital enterprises are characterised by a high intensity of utilisation of novel digital technologies (particularly social, big data, mobile and cloud solutions
stage of enterprise development and support the growth of digital entrepreneurial ventures Improve the ease of
However, the extent to which enterprises currently cooperate differs considerably across Member States and industries and will be an additional barrier policy makers
%whilst the remaining enterprises relied solely on internal resources (see Figure 9 Figure 9 †Enterprises cooperating with suppliers of equipment, materials, components or software
%of total innovative enterprises Source: European commission (2011. Science, Technology and innovation in Europe; Deloitte analysis
Pillar 2 †Create a digital entrepreneurial culture Small and medium-sized enterprises depend highly on entrepreneurs-individuals who have the
ideas and are willing to take the risks necessary to get a business off the ground.
7 Defined by the European commission as enterprises with innovation activity, i e. product, process, ongoing or
which enterprises currently cooperate differs across Member States 21 According to the 2012 Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship, which examines the
creating an enterprise and jobs is necessary as well. In this respect, actions can be initiated to encourage and facilitate networking
services within existing enterprises, as well as to leverage valuable skills of senior workforce and immigrants LT ITMTPT SIRO HU EU27US
Doing business in the digital age will require enterprises to have access to a specific and scarce
enterprises and higher education in order to shape the curriculum and skills required for success Although there are some examples of successful cooperation between higher education and
enterprises and higher education can be found in Finland with a cooperation degree of 28 %followed by Slovenia (23%)and Austria (20%.
Eastern europe as in those Member States less than 10%of all enterprises with NACE activities related to innovation, currently cooperate with universities or other higher education bodies
Table 3 †Enterprise cooperation with universities or other higher education bodies(%of innovative enterprises Source:
/In Denmark, the Foundation for Entrepreneurship-Young Enterprise aims to strengthen Denmarkâ's competitiveness and to position the country as one of the most leading European
conversion of ideas into enterprises. The Entrepreneur First initiative for example-a not-for-profit programme launched by the UK Prime minister in March 2011-is a two-year programme which
has benefitted traditionally from large immigrant communities as in the US 24%of all enterprises are founded by immigrants.
-tech enterprises in their seed phase and to contribute to the creation of highly-skilled jobs, or
finance, the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) was created in the UK. To be eligible, a
17 European commission-DG Enterprise and Industry (2011. SMES'Access to Finance. Survey 2011 In the European union, access to finance is the second most pressing problem faced by
-General Enterprise and Industry working on cross-border matching of innovative firms with suitable investors, argued that the â€oefragmented European regulatory environment along national
Figure 16 illustrates that the current level of cooperation between enterprises from different Member States (MS), EFTA countries and EU candidate Member States is limited rather, ranging
Figure 16 †Enterprises engaged in any type of innovation co-operation with a partner in EU
enterprises from different MS EFTA countries and EU candidate MS is rather limited 36 Options for policy action
small and medium enterprises. The evidence that supports greater use of ICT by businesses in
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) that are intensive users of technology not only grow and export more than their peers,
enterprise ï§In Member States such as Denmark, The netherlands, Sweden and the UK entrepreneurship education became the object of a coherent national strategy
wherever possible, exempting micro-enterprises from EU legislation or introducing special regimes so as to minimise the regulatory burden
needs of enterprises. Starting from raising general ICT awareness and financing basic ICT investments and internet connectivity, e-business policies have matured towards personalised e
connect better to larger enterprises and become fully integrated international business partners This initiative consists of a series of industry-specific demonstration actions (in the automotive
would help link SMES to larger enterprises in an efficient way. While the focus of these actions is
on smaller enterprises, the ultimate beneficiary is the entire European economy The first results are remarkable.
connection of smaller enterprises to the digital market (e g. for tourism, automotive construction, healthcare, etc.
and digitally-minded entrepreneurs and existing enterprises in any other sector Description ï§Leverage the existing †Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs†exchange programme to
-minded entrepreneurs and existing enterprises in any other sector ï§Encourage the applications for exchanges of young entrepreneurs or talented
enterprises and sectors ACTION 7 †Open data initiatives Connect to the Commission†s open data initiatives
A future'Europe Entrepreneurs†Visa Act†should target entrepreneurs founding an enterprise and willing to hire non-European highly skilled employees and non-European graduates from
to medium Enterprises) and JASMINE (Joint Action to Support Micro-finance Institutions in Europe) regional funds and the EU programme for the Competitiveness of enterprises and
SMES (COSME Description ï§Strengthen the Your Europe-finance and support-web portal as single point of
Enterprise Investment Scheme in UK Description ï§Consider the case for a capital gains tax rollover relief for shares in order to attract
digital entrepreneurship, comprising DG Enterprise, DG Connect, DG Market, DG EAC, DG RTD, different NGO€ s, the Member States and private sector organisations
PCP) and Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) initiated by DG Enterprise and Industry ï§Community development, raising of awareness, capability development and mutual
Micro to medium Enterprises) and JASMINE (Joint Action to Support Micro-finance Institutions in Europe) regional funds and the EU programme for the Competitiveness of
enterprises and SMES (COSME Pillar 5 Boost digitally powered Single Market 18) Leverage the national Points of
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme in UK Pillar 5 Boost digitally powered Single Market 21) Facilitation of
connection of smaller enterprises to the digital market (e g. for tourism, automotive construction, healthcare, etc.
young and digitally-minded entrepreneurs and existing enterprises in any other sector Pillar 3 Attract, develop &
and medium enterprises. It has been demonstrated that intensive use of ICT by businesses in different sectors and across
DG Enterprise and Industry †Policy Officer iordana. Eleftheriadou@ec. europa. eu Christian Combes Deloitte Consulting †Partner
regulation to the needs of micro-enterprises -European commission (2011. Science, technology and innovation in Europe
-European commission-DG Enterprise and Industry (2011. e-Skills for the 21st Century -European commission-DG Enterprise and Industry (2011.
SMES'Access to Finance Survey 2011 -European commission (2010. Entrepreneurship in the EU and beyond -European commission (2010.
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