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Foreword

Content Provider	OECD iLibrary
Organization	OECD
Abstract	Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs are major drivers of innovation, economic growth and job creation, and play a critical role in social cohesion. They are essential to the Italian economy. This review underlines some important points of strength with respect to Italian SMEs and entrepreneurship. Italy can be characterised as an SME economy, with very large numbers of SMEs and entrepreneurs. Italian medium-sized firms very often excel in their market niches and, on aggregate, their productivity exceeds that of their peers in countries such as Germany and France. Italian SMEs have a strong propensity to business collaboration, as found for example in many world class industrial clusters. The Italian business environment is also favourable to business start-ups. The time needed to open a business is shorter than in most other OECD countries. Administrative burdens on firms, especially those of small size, are also low thanks to simplification of rules and procedures during the last 10 years. Important steps have also been taken by the government to help SMEs negotiate the crisis by improving their access to finance; for example the resources of the national credit guarantee fund have been increased and the government has brought forward payments of state commercial arrears to private-sector firms.
Page Count	9
Starting Page	3
Ending Page	11
Language	English
Publisher	OECD Publishing
Publisher Date	2014-11-18
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Industry and Services
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in