Monitoring SMEs' performance in Europe
Methodological assessment of the SME Scoreboard 2020
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. We study performance in eleven principles: (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, (10) Internationalization and (11) Digitalization.
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 2020 edition.
DE PEDRAZA GARCIA Pablo;
KATSINIS Anastasis Avgerinos;
2021-06-14
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC125058
978-92-76-38591-2 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 30731 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30731-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC125058,
10.2760/29977 (online),
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