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Small enterprises & employment

Small enterprises & employment. Dr. Harm van Lieshout. A healthy working life in a healthy business. Providing employment is a key contribution of SMEs In particular in the North Netherlands Healthy Ageing key sector for Economic Policy in North Netherlands

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Small enterprises & employment

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  1. Smallenterprises & employment Dr. Harm van Lieshout

  2. A healthy working life in a healthy business • Providing employment is a key contribution of SMEs • In particular in the North Netherlands • Healthy Ageing key sector for Economic Policy in North Netherlands • Centre of Applied Labour Market Research • ‘The Labour Market in the Energy Port Groningen Region’ • ‘Healthy Ageing & Work’ Small enterpises and employment

  3. The firm: a succesfulcoordinationmechanism • Williamson: markets and hierarchies: • firms are literallybornfrom the costs of doing business • workorganisationrequires more thanspot-marketlabourcontracts • different varieties of capitalismshare the firm as its core coordinationmechanism • Entrepreurship has gainedsocial status since the 1970s • became a focus of Dutch (higher) education over the last decade, such as ourConsortium forValorisation and Entrepreneurship (CVO) Groningen Small enterpises and employment

  4. Policy paradoxes? • SMEs are considered important foremployment, in particular in the NorthNetherlands • Emerging sectors start withSMEs • of course, the hope of economicpolicymakers is thatfirmswillbecome big ratherthanremainsmall • SMEs are considered to bereluctantemployers, in particular in the Netherlands • twoyearliabilityforsickworkers; • changes in dismissallawmeansno more free lay-offs Small enterpises and employment

  5. A little help from my friends • Economic succes requires more thanindividualfirms • i.e. Southern Germany (associations), Italian Industrial Districts (networks) • Statesagainadoptingeconomicpolicy (sector selection) • Triple helix thinking has addededucation as a partner in this field • i.e. EnTranCe, Health Hub Roden, BuildInG • Understandingsmallenterprisesimpliesunderstandingmulti-level (labour) marketgovernance Small enterpises and employment

  6. Understanding Small Enterprises • UnderstandingSMEs is essantial to ouraspired succes as aneconomic partner • Smallentprises are notsmall big enterprises, and differsubstantiallyamongthem • ie., they do notneccarilywant to grow • The keyingredient to our help fromeducationremains the education of a newhighlyskilledgeneration of workers … and entrepreneurs • Entrpreneurs do notnecessarily want to beemployers, and are notnecessarilygood at it. • But to ensure a healthylife in a healthy business, theyneed to be Small enterpises and employment

  7. Solet’sshareour talent at understandingsmallenterprisesand move the world

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