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Lisbeth BAHL POULSEN SMEs: Clusters and Emerging Industries Unit

Enterprise and Industry Public Consultation on Green Action Plan for SMEs: Results SME Envoy Network Munich, 11.03.2014. Lisbeth BAHL POULSEN SMEs: Clusters and Emerging Industries Unit. Public Consultation: Aim & Use. Aim:

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Lisbeth BAHL POULSEN SMEs: Clusters and Emerging Industries Unit

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  1. Enterprise and IndustryPublic Consultation on Green Action Plan for SMEs: ResultsSME Envoy NetworkMunich, 11.03.2014 Lisbeth BAHL POULSEN SMEs: Clusters and Emerging Industries Unit

  2. Public Consultation: Aim & Use Aim: Collect stakeholders' views on most effective support measures & actors to help SMEs become more resource efficient & to help them sell green products and services internationally Use: Shape actions of the Green Action Plan for SMEs promoting resource efficiency for and by SMEs Open 20 September – 12 December 2013

  3. Public Consultation: Areas covered • Profile of Respondents • Support Services for GreeningSMEs • Access to Finance • SupportingSMEs in a Greener Value Chain • New Business Opportunities in a GreenerEconomy

  4. Profile of Respondents 175 respondents, predominantly business interests & SMEs Other includes research institutes, trade unions, NGOs –notably from environmental sector, business support agencies, organisations and consultancies

  5. Profile of Respondents 175 respondentsfromacross the European Union BE includes a number of European organisations

  6. Support Services for Greening SMEs Most effective services: • Technology & knowledge transfer (57,15%) • Resource Efficiency consultancy (55,43%) • Awareness raising (53,71%) Most commonlyoffered services: • Awarenessraising (60%) • Advice on funding & preparation of proposals (45,14%) • Technology a knowledgetransfer (43,43%)

  7. Support Services for Greening SMEsRole of Enterprise Europe Network Most effective services to promote Resource Efficiency: • Specific matchmaking events on green technologies (71,3%) • RE and eco-innovation as cross-cutting themes for B2B & C2C matchmaking (70,38%) • Strategic collaboration between EEN and other key partners (70,38%) • Improved classification of RE technologies in EEN d-base for betterpartnersearch services (67,65% of business organisations)

  8. Access to finance Assessinginvestmentcostsof Resource Efficiency actions: • Never thought of it (35,43%) • Toocomplicated (30,29%) • Doneit on myown (21,14%) • Doneitwith help of expert (8,57%)

  9. Access to FinanceFlash Eurobarometer 2013* – SME responses Impact of Resource Efficiency actions: • Decrease in production costs (42%) • Increase in production costs (21%) • No impact on production costs (25%) Most RE actions are lowcost: Over last 2 years, 72% of SMEs have investedlessthan 5% of annual turn-over in RE Public consultation resultsconfirmthese trends * "SMEs, resourceefficiency and green markets"

  10. Access to Finance Barriers to finance for Resource Efficiency actions: • RE investmentstaketoo long to becomefinancially viable (72%) • Financial return is not high enough (65,85%) • Finance providers lacksufficientunderstanding of RE investments (78,26% of business organisations) Findingscontradict Flash Eurobarometer 2013: • 68% satisfiedwith return on RE investment, 12% 'verysatisfied'

  11. Supporting SMEs in a Greener Value Chain Most important areas for Resource Efficiency actions: • Waste management (89,15%) • Production operations (86,86%) • Recycling (86,28%) Most important drivers of Ressource Efficiency actions: • Large companies (90,86%) • SMEs (88,57%) • Third party intermediaries (70,28%), notablytechnological centres

  12. New Business Opportunities in a Greener Economy Facilitatingaccess to markets for green products & services: • Environmental labels & certification are important, but keepit simple for consumers (74,86%) • Local/regionalstrategies are are effective to promote local creation & businesses (72,86%) Otherways for business to show green commitments: • Life cycle management, eco-design, environmentalfootprint, extendedproducerresponsibility (EPR), EU EnvironmentalTechnologyVerification (ETV), etc.

  13. New Business Opportunities in a Circular Economy Everyone supports the circulareconomy concept! • Support knowledge sharing & cooperationbetweenSMEs on 'circular' business models, e.g. product-service systems, cradle-to-cradle and take-back systems • Promoteresource optimisation across value chainssuch as repair cycles, recycling & 'upcycling' of wasteinto new materials or products • Beware of high costs of recycling of someproducts and need to review classification of certain waste types as reusableproducts

  14. New Business Opportunities in a Global Economy Most effective support for access to global markets: • Pre-market entry assistance (84%) • Business cooperation and networking (83,43%) • Identifyingpotentialforeign business partners (82,29%) • Easingaccess to local finance (79,43%) Least effective support: • Online information portals for SMEs (34,29%) • Temporary offices in targetmarkets (28,57%) • Exhibiting a international tradefairs (28%)

  15. More information • Report on Results of the Public Consultation: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/public-consultation-green-action-plan/index_en.htm#h2-9 • Flash Eurobarometer 2013: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_342_en.pdf

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