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Enterprise Directorate General

European Commission. Enterprise Directorate General. Promotion strategies and current trend of SME informatization in the EU. Philippe JEAN EU Commission Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry. Role of SME in Europe: some elements A definition: less than 250 20 millions firms

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Enterprise Directorate General

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  1. European Commission Enterprise Directorate General Promotion strategies and current trend of SME informatization in the EU

  2. Philippe JEAN EU Commission Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry

  3. Role of SME in Europe: some elements A definition: less than 250 • 20 millions firms • 65 millions jobs • At centre for growth and jobs

  4. The challenges of the SME policy • Administrative constraints • Assets of size and proximity • SME policy in EU and in Member States • Complementary role

  5. SMEs and the challenge of informatization • Scepticism vis-à-vis ICT • IT not fitting SME

  6. Go Digital Initiative Lisbon context: priority on growth and jobs Specification on ICT in SME Go Digital 3 priorities : • Favourable environment • Research and development • Skills 11 actions

  7. Actions on legal environment • Benchmarking of national and regional strategies • Mastering of take up of ICT and e-business • Improvement of access to information • Improvement of electronic business interoperability

  8. Actions on technological development • Promotion of awareness for going digital • Promotion of electronic commerce take up • Promotion of loan guarantees facilities • Promoting better use of Regional Structural Funds

  9. Actions on skills • Supporting industry led initiatives • Creating an ICT skills Monitoring Group • Launching a SME trainee programme

  10. An evaluation: some plus, minus and recommendations • Awareness • Improvement of legal framework • A narrowing gap on skills

  11. A relaunch of initiatives for 2005-2010 A new context 2 new priorities: • e-Government • Framework for SMR in research programmes

  12. More information • http://europa.eu.int/dgs//information_society Europe’s information society – thematic portal Sections : - Economy and work - SME’s - eBusiness • Specific referred documents - Communication from the Commission helping SMEs to go digital (13.03.2001) (COM2001-136 final) - SME’s Europe’s future eEurope SME Go Digital Conference Report • Speech of Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society on May 20, 2005 on SME and ICT • http://europa.eu.int/godigital (updated 2003)

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