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Governments should do more to help SMEs expand abroad

10-Nov-2006

Participants at a two-day OECD-APEC conference in Athens agreed that governments should play a more active role in helping small and medium-sized firms trying to expand abroad and provide training in key areas such as marketing and intellectual property.


Events

Brazil hosts an OECD Global Conference on Financing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Entrepreneurship

from 27-Mar-2006 to 30-Mar-2006

Access to finance is one of the biggest obstacles to the creation, growth and development of small businesses, according to OECD analysis. How governments can help entrepreneurs get the funds to develop their business was the focus of this high-level international conference organised jointly by the OECD and Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.



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Women Entrepreneurs

Realising the Benefits of Globalisation and the Knowledge-based Economy

Women Entrepreneurs in SMEs:Realising the Benefits of Globalisation and the Knowledge-based Economy