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Spanish Presidency of the EU: PIN-SME tells Spain how to boost ICT SMEs!

Brussels, 11 December 2009. From January 2010 Spain will have the rotating presidency of the European Union. PIN-SME together with its Spanish member ESTIC have decided to request Spain to focus the next semester of the EU on ICT small enterprises. The European association of ICT SMEs has developed a set of recommendations aimed at fostering the competitiveness of ICT small businesses in Europe. The recommendations of PIN-SME concern:
·    Improvement of European Directive on Late Payments
·    Facilitate Internationalisation of ICT small enterprises
·    Foster SMEs’ Innovation and growth
·    Improved access to qualified labor
·    Better exploitation of R&D  

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Statement

 
Andrea Benassi, UEAPME Secretary General
 
 
ICT small businesses are the key to fostering innovation and growth and to disseminating and promoting the use of ICT. Europe’s 23 million European SMEs need ICT to enhance their competitiveness and be more prosperous.

Half of the productivity growth of the EU comes from the ICT sector. In 2006, SMEs represented a share of more than two thirds of the workforce of the European ICT services industry. Micro-enterprises alone account for more than 94% of the total number of enterprises.
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PIN-SME: the voice of ICT small and medium sized enterprises in Europe

PIN-SME is an association formed in 2007 to represent the interests of Europe’s ICT SME sector. Currently ten national and regional associations are members, representing some 50,000 ICT SME companies that account for around 200k jobs. PIN-SME aims to ensure that ICT SMEs get talked to rather than just talked about. It provides a voice for ICT SMEs in the policy and business arenas and is already represented in several EU expert groups and taskforces.
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 Sebastiano Toffaletti
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Andreas R. Fischer
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Fabio Massimo
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Charles Huthwaite
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