Methodological assessment of the SME Scoreboard 2018
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), with the scientific support by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), assesses the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Europe, depending on the performance in the ten principles of: (1) Entrepreneurship, (2) ‘Second chance’, (3) ‘Think small first’, (4) ‘Responsive administration’, (5) State aid & public procurement, (6) Access to finance, (7) Single market, (8) Skills and innovation, (9) Environment, and (10) Internationalisation.
This JRC technical report describes the underlying rationale for the quantitative measurement of these principles. It discusses the methodological approach to calculate how countries perform in the outlined principles. This takes into account the choice of the indicators, the data quality controls (including missing data and outliers), normalization and weightings, and the statistical coherence and robustness checks of the 2018 edition.
DE PEDRAZA GARCIA Pablo;
KATSINIS Anastasis Avgerinos;
2019-01-07
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC113397
978-92-79-98387-0 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 29568 EN,
OP KJ-NA-29568-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC113397,
10.2760/262873 (online),
