“scale up” account for the majority of new jobs in the economy. These firms can play a key role in the recovery. However, scaling up brings new challenges.
Lenka Wildnerova
Lenka Wildnerova is a junior economist at the Economic Analysis, Data and Statistics Division of the OECD Centre for SMEs, Regions, and Cities. Her work focuses on the analysis of firm performance using firm and employee data. She holds a PhD degree from Universite Paris-Saclay in international economics.
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.