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Is your next-door SME scaling up?

The success story of Fine Food Group looks different from the glitzy high-tech start-ups featured in business magazines or in investment blogs. The OECD report Understanding Firm Growth: Helping SMEs Scale Up shows that its storyis nonetheless much more representative of a typical scaler than that of a high-tech start-up.

New faces in new places? The new geography of work

10 January 2022 Lamia Kamal-Chaoui

Teleworking transformed the world of work for many over the last two years. Many commentators have speculated that it will change our geography too – as people leave cities for greener environments and more affordable housing.

Is your next-door SME scaling up?

20 December 2021 Carlo Menon and Lenka Wildnerova

Empowering SMEs to drive a digital recovery

08 December 2021 Vinod Kumar

Es are the beating heart of the global economy. In Europe alone, there are 24 million small businesses, employing a total of 95 million people and generating €4 trillion a year. And yet, SMEs are still behind their larger counterparts in the integration of the digital tools that they need to increase productivity, scale-up and innovate.

“Open for business?” How to create opportunities in entrepreneurship for everyone

03 December 2021 David Halabisky

Not everyone has an equal opportunity to transform their ideas into a business. There could be an additional 9 million people starting and managing new

Lightening the load: How to understand and reduce SMEs debt burden

02 December 2021 Lilas Demmou, Guido Franco and Stephan Raes

COVID-19 has triggered an economic shock like no other in living memory. Social distancing and trading restrictions hit small businesses particularly hard, with many seeing

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