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Digital SME in the European knowledge society
The Digital SME domain focus is on SMEs best practices in exploiting the opportunities provided by ICT to improve performance.
Attention is devoted to SMEs evolution and to the “external” factors, related to “digital economy”, that directly affect SMEs success and development. This focus will result in addressing:
- Structural changes in SMEs organisation and management related to the impact of digital economy
- Changes in the competitive scenario that may affect the SMEs evolution
- Interventions and policy instruments that have contributed to foster the SMEs adaptation to digital economy.
The analysis will consider both single business units and networks of SMEs. In fact, the networks, both informally and formally defined, are important organisations for the small companies and several experiences (such as the industrial clusters) show that networking is a successful way to improve SMEs competitiveness.
The definition of SME is based on the EU quantitative parameters: employment, assets and turnover (i.e. any company with less than 250 employees).
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