SMEs and entrepreneurship

The new report: OECD Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs Scoreboard: 2023 Highlights provides official data on SME financing in close to 50 countries, including indicators on debt, equity, asset-based finance and financing conditions. Data for 2021 are complemented by available information for 2022, along with demand-side information and recent developments in public policy and private initiatives to support SME finance.

The CFE has launched a new joint activity based on the Inclusive Entrepreneurship. This new project - called Youth Entrepreneurship Policy Academy - aim to create a network of young entrepreneurs and how the governments can help them in creating their businesses.

The OECD presented six key policy responses at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Lugano on 4 & 5 July 2022. The CFE presented one of this note on digitalisation for recovery. The Ukrainian government’s response to the war in the area of digitalisation is structured around three key pillars: “Digital Infrastructure, Internet recovery and development”; “Public Services and Registers”; and the “Digital Economy”. More...

The Recommendation on SME and Entrepreneurship policy was adopted by the OECD Council at Ministerial level on 10 June 2022 on the proposal of the Committee on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (CSMEE)