• Innovation – Technology – Knowledge: initiatives to accelerate technology transfer to SMEs, integrate innovation and promote sustainability in production.
• Skills for Industry 4.0. Improve adaptability by bridging the knowledge gap, improving governance skills, and business transfer procedures to strengthen SME’s resilience.
• Exports: Relying on domestic demand limits SMEs’ growth, curtails economies of scale and reduces productivity. Participation in international B2B networks improve internationalization and growth prospects.
• Access to Finance: EU funds’ goals and criteria, should increasingly emphasize SMEs’ scale-up (productivity, exports, job creation, etc.) and synergies within the ecosystem. In addition to traditional financial tools, we aim to further simplify and facilitate SMES’ access to investment capital, the stock market, etc.
• Administrative and regulatory conditions for thriving SMEs, with reduced administrative and compliance costs, predictable taxation, flexible labor market, quick reflexes to correct flaws, and functional dispute resolution mechanisms.
• Mergers, Acquisitions & Clustering to help achieve critical mass as an effective way to improve resilience, competitiveness and responsiveness to challenges related with digitalisation, sustainability, and Industry 4.0.

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