SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in the Slovak Republic
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This report presents the findings and recommendations of the OECD review of SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in the Slovak Republic. It examines how to address the challenges of stimulating more productive entrepreneurship, supporting enterprise scale-up, stimulating SME exports and global value chain participation, increasing SME innovation and innovative entrepreneurship, and making entrepreneurship more inclusive across the population. The report examines SME and entrepreneurship performance and the business environment for SMEs and entrepreneurship in the Slovak Republic, giving benchmarks against other OECD countries. The report also takes a close look at arrangements to ensure policy leadership, co-ordination and consultation in this field. It examines the government support programmes across areas including SME and entrepreneurship financing, supporting innovation, building SME workforce skills and public procurement. It also examines the east-west divide in SME and entrepreneurship activity and their supporting conditions in the Slovak Republic and how to strengthen regional entrepreneurial ecosystems across the country. Further chapters focus on SME digitalisation and the promotion of self-employment and social entrepreneurship to strengthen the labour market attachment of the Slovak Republic's Roma community.
Inclusive Entrepreneurship – Focus on the Roma Community
This chapter explores how policy measures for self-employment and social entrepreneurship can help support labour market integration among the Roma community in the Slovak Republic. It shows that the Roma community has low participation in self-employment in the formal economy and explores the reasons. It examines current policies to support Roma people in business creation and self-employment and the barriers they encounter when seeking to access government entrepreneurship-related supports. It also examines the potential for social enterprises to provide a pathway to labour market attachment for the Roma population. It offers a series of policy proposals.
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