TY - UNPB
T1 - Analysis of EU Member States’ strengths and weaknesses in the 2016 SMEs scoreboard
AU - Ghisetti, Claudia
AU - Stano, Pawel
AU - Ferent, Marina
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), with the scientific support by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), assesses the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Europe, depending on the performance in the ten principles of: (1) Entrepreneurship, (2) ‘Second chance’, (3) ‘Think small first’, (4) ‘Responsive administration’, (5) State aid & public procurement, (6) Access to finance, (7) Single market, (8) Skills and innovation, (9) Environment, and (10) Internationalisation. This JRC technical report adopts a robust consensus clustering methodology to group European countries in 5 robust Clusters, based on similar performance in these principles. Then, Cluster average values are exploited to analyse strengths and weaknesses of European countries within the Small Business Act principle and to derive a prioritization setting as well as a benchmarking tool to guide European Member States in improving along the ten principles.
AB - The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), with the scientific support by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), assesses the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Europe, depending on the performance in the ten principles of: (1) Entrepreneurship, (2) ‘Second chance’, (3) ‘Think small first’, (4) ‘Responsive administration’, (5) State aid & public procurement, (6) Access to finance, (7) Single market, (8) Skills and innovation, (9) Environment, and (10) Internationalisation. This JRC technical report adopts a robust consensus clustering methodology to group European countries in 5 robust Clusters, based on similar performance in these principles. Then, Cluster average values are exploited to analyse strengths and weaknesses of European countries within the Small Business Act principle and to derive a prioritization setting as well as a benchmarking tool to guide European Member States in improving along the ten principles.
KW - Cluster analysis
KW - SMEs
KW - Cluster analysis
KW - SMEs
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/145217
U2 - 10.2760/698484
DO - 10.2760/698484
M3 - Working paper
SN - 978-92-79-67971-1
BT - Analysis of EU Member States’ strengths and weaknesses in the 2016 SMEs scoreboard
PB - Publications Office of the European Union
ER -
