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The Digital SME domain focus will be on best
practices in how SMEs can exploit the opportunities provided by ICT
to improve their 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
definition of SME is based on the EU quantitative parameters:
employment, assets and turnover (i.e. any company with less than 250
employees).
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.
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