This report was prepared by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director.
The report summarises the findings of work undertaken for the project “Scaling up and beyond – better evidence for SME policies”, co-funded by the European Commission (EC).
The OECD Secretariat would like to thank Ludger Odenthal and Markus Hell of the EC Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) for their input and support throughout the project. The analysis in this report would not have been possible without the help of national experts, Kalle Hansen (Statistics Denmark), Léa Marchal (Université Paris Dauphine, France), Merja Myllymäki (Statistics Finland), Gianluca Orefice (Université Paris Dauphine, France), Vladimir Peciar (Ministry of Finance, Slovakia), Tim Peeters (Statistics Netherlands), Alexander Schiersch (German Institute for Economic Research), Stjepan Srhoj (University of Split, Croatia) and Klaus Weyerstrass (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria), to whom the OECD Secretariat extends its thanks for providing advice and data on scale-up dynamics in their country. Advice and comments at different stages of the project were also received from delegates of the CSMEE, the European Union SME Envoys and participants at the European Union’s SME Assembly, the Interreg Europe Scale Up Project and the European Scaleup Workshop organised by Nordic Innovation, Vlerick Business School and Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, as well as from OECD colleagues, in particular Nadim Ahmad, Jaebeum Cho and Andrew Lombardi, and Celine Kauffmann, the former Head of the SME and Entrepreneurship Division.
The project was co-ordinated by Alexander C. Lembcke, Deputy Head of the Economic Analysis, Data and Statistics Division, under the supervision of Rudiger Ahrend, Head of the Economic Analysis, Data and Statistics Division, and Lucia Cusmano, Head of the SME and Entrepreneurship Division. The report was prepared by Roberto Crotti, Carlo Menon, Maria Sobron Bernal, Jimena Velayos, and Jeyul Yang, with significant contributions from Federica Daniele, Bruno De Menna, Milenko Fadic, Matias Golman, Darya Korlyakova, Jack Melbourne, Lora Pissareva, Alexandra Rusu and Lenka Wildnerova under the guidance of Alexander C. Lembcke and Jonathan Potter, Head of the Entrepreneurship Policy and Analysis Unit.
The policy information contained in this report has been collected by Bruno De Menna, Alb Matamoros Rojas, Patricia Peñalosa, Lois Pimentel Iglesias, Lora Pissareva and Juan Rodrigo Lopez under the guidance of Sandrine Kergroach, Senior Economist, and is available via an online OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Policy Dashboard. Carlo Menon, Manager of the Spatial Productivity Lab, was responsible for the coordination and implementation of the distributed microdata analysis.
Thanks are also due to Jack Waters and Heather Mortimer for guiding the preparation of the final publication and Pauline Arbel for support with communication and design.