- Femmes d'affaires
Long ago I gave up trying to break through the so-called “glass ceiling” that has kept women like me out of higher management. Instead I decided to create new enterprises in which management could be reinvented by women. On 8 March 2005, I launched a business incubator devoted exclusively to projects by female entrepreneurs.
(628 words) - Enterprising action
An action statement to help small and medium-sized enterprises was launched at a conference on “Better Financing for Entrepreneurship and SME Growth” held in Brazil on 27-30 March 2006 (see previous edition, No. 254).
(172 words) - Finance business
Access to financing continues to be a significant impediment to the creation, survival and growth of small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs). Although the role of smaller firms in innovation and employment cannot be underestimated, from a bank’s point of view SMEs tend to have a high risk profile, especially innovative ones.
(325 words) - German innovation
“Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.” Bertolt Brecht’s much quoted comment would probably capture the mood of today’s German venture capitalists, who, if recent spending trends are a sign, may only just be recovering from the fright of the new economy’s collapse in 2000-2001.
(671 words) - Small and medium enterprises: Seizing the potential
“Small is beautiful.” It is not unusual these days to apply this much quoted observation to the needs of small and medium enterprises. Indeed, SMEs are now very much in the public policy limelight, and when you consider that they account for over 95% of enterprises and 60%-70% of employment in OECD countries, it is easy to see why.
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Are you confident that governments can help avoid a global depression?
- Who pays the highest income tax?
- The income taxes people really pay
- Financial crisis and the economy
- Bullying at school: tackling the problem
- Unequal growth, unequal recession?
- From the financial crisis to the economic downturn
- Transfer pricing: Keeping it at arm’s length
- Santé to the French health system
- The brain drain: Old myths, new realities
- Immigration in the European Union: problem or solu...