Flash Eurobarometer 486 (SMEs, Start-ups, Scale-ups and Entrepreneurship)

• Main Author: European Commission, Brussels; Directorate General Communication, COMM.A.3 ´Media monitoring and Eurobarometer´
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13639; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7637?lang=en; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7637?lang=de

SMEs, start-ups, scale-ups and entrepreneurship. Topics: growth of the company since 2016 with regard to: number of full-time equivalent employees, turnover; planned growth of the company (in percent) with regard to: number of full-time equivalent employees, turnover; attitude towards the following statements with regard to growth in employment or turnover: existence of a strategic plan, plans to grow as a result of introducing some kind of innovation, plans to grow as a result of operating in growing markets, plans to grow as a result of entering new markets, plans to grow as a result of increased digitalisation in the enterprise, plans to grow in the own country, plans to grow in EU countries, plans to grow in other non-EU countries; current situation of the company: no intention to grow beyond current size, lack of employees with skills or expertise needed to grow, no financial resources to grow, decreasing demand for the enterprise´s products or services or the market is saturated, additional regulatory or administrative burdens and requirements would be too high for the enterprise to grow, enterprise does not want to grow because it would lose benefits linked to its SME status, current location of the enterprise does not allow to grow and it is not wished to relocate elsewhere, enterprise relies on a few clients which are unlikely to increase their demand, other; location of the company: large town or city, small town or village, rural area, industrial area, near a border with an EU country, near a border with a non-EU country; applicable statements with regard to the own company: mainly provides goods, mainly provides services, sells goods online to buyers in EU countries, is member of an industry cluster or another SME business support organisation in the region, is part of a global value chain, has a patent or a patent application, is a non-profit enterprise, has a strategy or action plan to digitalise, other, none; probability for the company to obtain external financing in case of need; international ...