(a) Corporate and product databases.

ILO has two databases of particular relevance to enterprise development which are managed by its Enterprise and Co operative Development Department.

The World Bank has several databases relevant to enterprise development and is also one of the sponsors of the Enterprise Development Website (ENTERWeb).

Businesses often obtain financing for specific purchases of inventory or equipment.

a Owing to the lack of data on OFDI by SMEs, the authors constructed a database which classified OFDI by firm size by merging firm names from the Prowess database of the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy with information from government sources and the dataset from the Research and Information System for the Non Aligned and Other Developing Countries (RIS).

One part of this database consists of a listing of trade barriers that have been brought to the attention of the Commission by businesses.

ENTERWeb is a master index of databases and websites relating to enterprise development at the address http www.enterweb.org.

From the review of existing databases, it appears that there is no need for UNCTAD to create another general database on SMEs.

The Business of Business is More Than Business

With respect to the types of enterprises, one may distinguish between informal sector enterprises, essentially microenterprises, and enterprises in the formal sector, which include some microenterprises, SMEs and large firms.

Mr. Toru Ueno, Principal Administrator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE), Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) and Entrepreneurship Division, OECD

Many such firms were family firms, which found it difficult to develop an entrepreneurial outlook.

SMEs provide a breeding ground for entrepreneurs.

Thus, a rapidly growing number of companies, universities and other organizations are contributing to a world wide pool of commercializable knowledge, and many enterprises are now seeking linkages to other organizations in innovative ways.

The beginning of joint ventures abroad by manufacturing SMEs can be traced back to two different time periods depending on the size of firms (medium sized versus small enterprises).

An increase in the stock price of steel manufacturers suggests an increase in the demand for steel, which induces entrepreneurs to start more steel plants and investors to provide them with the money. Conversely, a decrease in the stock price of steel manufacturers leads entrepreneurs to liquidate existing plants and dissuades investors from committing more resources to the sector.

Part C provides information on SME research institutions and support agencies which might lead to the establishment of a database with a view to achieving better coordination in SME research and related technical cooperation activities.

Enterprise

Lastly, the third type of links are structural links which involve complete mergers of enterprises or the absorption of enterprises by other enterprises.

The objective of the Indonesian Association of Women Entrepreneurs (IWAPI) is the empowerment of women entrepreneurs, in particular those in micro, small and medium enterprises.

As in the case of Internet access, the prevalence of websites is higher the larger the enterprise 53 per cent of small companies, 76 per cent of medium sized companies and 89 per cent of large companies.

Unleashing Entrepreneurship Making Business Work for the Poor.

The scope will usually be business to business services.

3. Enterprise issues relating to an enterprise development strategy.

Also, regular inspections and inventories had been undertaken of the arms stockpiles of companies, and the security of such stockpiles had been enhanced.

Experience shows that the development of subcontracting arrangements between large firms and SMEs can give an incentive for large firms to provide financial, technical and other assistance to SMEs.

Most of the enterprises in the first category are either foreign owned or in the public sector.

Firms 18 per cent

In this respect, access to finance for new and expanding firms greatly influences firm development and growth.

Linkages between foreign and local firms should be encouraged.

The Indian entity held 56 per cent stake.

Item 3 Enterprise issues relating to an enterprise development strategy

2 Business Combination

Moreover, support mechanisms and programmes need to respond to the diversity of firms involved and the types of problems faced by different categories of SMEs, ranging from subsistence or income supplementing microenterprises operating in the informal sector to internationalized, technologically advanced SMEs.

One or more enterprises which already control at least one enterprise directly or indirectly acquire total or partial control of one or more enterprises

Development of agri business component

Southern Europe could reconfigure its enterprises to become engines of productivity

(a) Training agencies, in agreement with a business or with business association

24. It was not only at the level of firms that there must be an enterprise development strategy.

(k) Equipment means tangibles (other than negotiable instruments, negotiable documents and inventory), used by a person in the operation of its business.

Enterprise

Teacher training

Enterprise Africa

Enterprise sector

Small and medium size enterprises