SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in Israel 2016

Collectif

Nov 2016 · OECD

About this ebook

This report examines Israel’s performance in stimulating SMEs and entrepreneurship and makes recommendations for government policy. A dual economy has gradually emerged in Israel, in which high rates of successful technology-based entrepreneurship contrast with low average productivity and growth in traditional SMEs. Israel has excellent framework conditions and programmes for technology-based start-ups and SMEs in areas such as R&D, high-level skills generation and venture capital finance. These strengths need to be maintained. At the same time, more needs to be done to spread success to all types of SMEs and all groups of the Israeli population. This report recommends a range of new and expanded interventions for example in access to credit, broad innovation, workforce skills development, management support and entrepreneurship education. It recommends underpinning these actions with a national SME and entrepreneurship policy strategy and new arrangements for inter-ministerial co-ordination.

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L’Union européenne est à la croisée des chemins : entre implosion et refondation. Il s’agit, dans ce numéro de Cités, de revenir sur ses principes constitutif pour déterminer à quelle conditions elle peut retrouver la perspective d’un avenir, qui ne peut aller sans le soutien des peuples et des citoyens européens.