(a) Corporate and product databases.

Collecting data from small sized and unincorporated enterprises is particularly difficult.

Data related to the impact of OFDI on firms' competitiveness are particularly lacking, especially for the SME sector.

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).

62. Public reporting of environmental data by enterprises is a phenomenon of the 1990s.

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

We could talk about government data, enterprise data is really important, there's scientific data, there's personal data, there's weather data, there's data about events, there's data about talks, and there's news and there's all kinds of stuff.

Eurostat data show that the proportion of EU enterprises selling online increases with the size of the company 29 per cent of large enterprises placed orders as compared with 19 per cent of medium sized enterprises and 12 per cent of small enterprises.

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

It is harder to obtain comparable information on Internet access by enterprises in developing countries.

Nonetheless, in the cases in which data are disaggregated according to the size of enterprises, it appears that also in developing countries access to Internet is more prevalent among larger businesses.

Half of the businesses have only one worker, and 98 have fewer than ten.

The lack of statistics has hampered analysis of the internationalization strategies of developing country enterprises, particularly SMEs.

At first sight, it seems counterintuitive that companies would want to share data and potentially give away competitive advantages. But this presupposes that the possession of such data does indeed imply a competitive advantage, and that a closed operating model is financially sustainable.

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

Based on an enterprise, i.e., made up of workers employed in the same enterprise.

Some statistics say 85 percent or more of funding for small businesses comes from friends and family.

An expert stated that Republic of Korea SMEs account for a significant percentage of OFDI by Korean firms. Most of their investments are in neighbouring countries.

Since 1996, the Department of Statistics data have included data on local owned companies for some variables (e.g. host countries and activity abroad).

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

If there are several unions based on an enterprise, on an industry, or both, competing in the same enterprise, the collective agreement shall be concluded with the union with the greatest number of members in the enterprise

Partial data also indicate that the percentage of enterprises' total turnover from e commerce increased from 5.9 per cent in 2003 to 9.4 per cent in 2004.

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

Data on outward FDI by SMEs are still very limited.

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

Official statistics demonstrate that microenterprises have become significant generators of employment and self employment.

We cannot give the data free to the students, free to the entrepreneurs of the world.

Further, the quality and quantity of firm specific assets owned are also different between SMEs, and larger enterprises.

Most shops and businesses were also closed.

(iii) Employees in government owned business undertakings under the Business Acquisition Act. Force of law

The Enterprise shall obtain a minimum of 20 per cent of the equity participation in the venture arrangement on the following basis

As noted in para. 69 above, the number of enterprises disclosing non financial and financially quantified environmental data is increasing at a steady rate.

22. The nature of the services required by SMEs must be defined on the basis of the typical characteristics of the SME.

To improve women entrepreneurs' visibility and representation, including representation abroad, chambers of commerce were providing services specifically for their benefit.

A major constraint hindering research on internationalization of SMEs is the lack of accurate and reliable data.

Geoffrey West The surprising math of cities and corporations

It was important to strengthen capacity building in SMEs to enable them to improve their ability to analyse and make use of data from the globalized business world.

Data from the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic show that for the 264,487 women who were employed in 1994, the main employers were private companies, with 93,833 women employees, followed by the Government, with 77,639 women working in various government offices.

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Almost 75 of the enterprises employed less than 20 persons only 22 enterprises had more than 100 employees.

The number of developing country firms among the Fortune 500 companies rose from 29 in 1998 to 45 in 2005.

At times, this has also resulted in a reduced choice of local products and a reduction in the number of stores, especially micro enterprises and SMEs.

OECD data on the top 100 computer firms show that of a total of just under US 280 billion in revenues generated in 1992, nearly 60 per cent was generated by firms based in the United States, Japan and European Union countries.

While the data are still very limited, they give an initial indication on the adoption of ICT by enterprises in developing countries.

The entry of private ventures into the Earth observation sector might also see a more competitive remote sensing data market.