SMEs provide a breeding ground for entrepreneurs.

Subsidized infrastructure and services are often provided for enterprises investing in export processing zones, enterprise zones or science parks.

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

(e) Pay The enterprise must remunerate the worker for the time spent on the job in the firm, while the National Employment Fund pays for the time spent on training

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.

Engagement in enterprise

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Market vitality comes from people, especially from entrepreneurs, from entrepreneurship.

So in short, it's a do it yourself tool for small businesses to raise these funds.

It is based on the recognition that the latent capacity of the poor for entrepreneurship would be encouraged with the availability of small scale loans and would introduce them to the small enterprise sector.

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While the reasons for investing abroad are largely the same for SMEs as for bigger firms, the relative importance of the different factors may vary.

While the market and its development are essential for the operation of firms, the market alone will not be sufficient for the smooth operation of firms.

The solution is a rapid shift from China s export based growth model to one based on domestic demand from infrastructure to consumption from the dominance of large state owned enterprises (SOEs) to that of small and medium size private enterprises from industry to services and, more broadly, from bureaucratic control to market control.

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.

Furthermore, it can strengthen the entrepreneurial base in the host country by providing local entrepreneurs with management skills and new experiences.

Emphasis will be placed on entrepreneurship development (with special focus on rural and women's entrepreneurship), the development of horizontal and vertical SME networks for ensuring job creation and income generation, and the strengthening of agro based and agro related industries.

Non affiliated and small employers lag behind large employers and those affiliated to employers' organisations.

Regarding the proportion of businesses with a website, 58 per cent of businesses in the European Union have them.

AGREED CONCLUSIONS ON ENTERPRISE ISSUES RELATING TO AN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

(iii) The development of innovation, entrepreneurial and technological capabilities as essential inputs for the development and growth of enterprises

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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.

SMEs investing abroad can normally be found among the more growth oriented SMEs.

I. Agreed conclusions on enterprise issues relating to an enterprise development strategy

(b) Women and emerging entrepreneurs often have needs that are different from those of other entrepreneurs.

The project showed that current approaches to small business finance were based on the experience of previous policies that focused on credit subsidies and had meagre results.

West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment Ordinance 1968 is applicable only partially in industrial and commercial units where 20 or more workers are employed.

Thus, the agricultural institutions working in rural development, in an attempt to facilitate rural funding, has been creating alternative sources of funding such as Agricultural and Rural Development Fund (FFADR), Fisheries Development Fund (FFP), Small Industry Development Fund (FFPI), Fund for Agricultural Credit and Rural Development (CCADR), etc.

41. Incoherence in the formulation of macroeconomic and enterprise specific policies is often more costly for SMEs than for larger enterprises.

Measures for effective protection include Physical security of likely targets e.g. public buildings, public transport (aviation, land and maritime), places of symbolic value, critical national infrastructure.

All those ventures had been based on the principle of Today s partners are tomorrow s partners .

They were mostly confined to the horizontal movement of business people and of senior management.

With regard to the former, crime drives away business and investment and increases the costs for businesses, both local and international, that conduct commercial activities in Africa.

These results were for large businesses, since micro and small businesses were mostly unaware of the programme (62 per cent to date).

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Has this kind of assistance enabled microenterprises to grow into SMEs?

(c) Creation of a business village, to be completed in 1995

12. Invites national and international development entities, foundations and enterprises to explore ways of improving the access of older persons to credit, training and appropriate technologies for income generation and their participation in family, community and small businesses

Training courses were designed to meet the needs of small business owners, including borrowers from the Agency s revolving loan funds, potential entrepreneurs and women enterprise owners, who generally had few other opportunities for business or management training.

SMEs in the software industry are disproportionately more internationalized than SMEs in manufacturing activities This reflects the competitiveness of Indian SMEs in software activities.

The review arrangements may apply to operations whose sole consequence is to enable an enterprise or group of enterprises to exert influence on one or more enterprises.

Participants highlighted the difficulties in assessing when mere presence would amount to complicity in abuse as well as the difficulty in withdrawing, particularly given the fixed nature of infrastructure in the industry.