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An enterprise is defined as a legal entity possessing the right to conduct business on its own, for example a corporation, a quasi- corporation, a non-profit institution or an unincorporated enterprise.
For this indicator, enterprises are classified according to their size by number of people employed: 1 to 9 persons employed (micro enterprises), 10 to 19 and 20 to 49 (small enterprises), 50 to 249 (medium-sized enterprises), and 250 or more persons employed (large enterprises). The definition of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is an enterprise that employs fewer than 250 people.
This indicator is measured as the number of enterprises by size, as measured by the number of employees. in the manufacturing sector.
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This indicator is measured as the number of employees in the manufacturing sector. An enterprise is defined as a legal entity possessing the right to conduct business on its own, for example to enter into contracts, own property, incur liabilities and establish bank accounts. An enterprise may be a corporation, a quasi- corporation, a non-profit institution, or an unincorporated enterprise. Enterprises can be classified in different categories according to their size; for this purpose, different criteria may be used, but the most common is number of people employed. In small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) employ fewer than 250 people. SMEs are further subdivided into micro enterprises (fewer than 10 employees), small enterprises (10 to 49 employees), medium-sized enterprises (50 to 249 employees). Large enterprises employ 250 or more people.
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Those who are self-employed with employees are people whose primary activity is self-employment and who employ others. The incorporated self-employed are only partly or non-included in the counts of self-employed in several countries. This indicator is measured by gender as percentage of total employment.
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Those who are self-employed without employees are people whose primary activity is self-employment and do not employ others. The incorporated self-employed are only partly or non-included in the counts of self-employed in several countries. This indicator is measured by sex as percentage of total employment.
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Current business conditions: Two groups of enterprises with a Facebook page are identified, depending on whether their top management is predominantly male or female. For each group, the indicator is the share of enterprises giving a positive answer to the question “How would you evaluate the current state of your business?” and “What is your outlook for the next 6 months on your business?”
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Data refer to the share of women in the total number of inventors of IP5 patent families. A patent family is a collection of patent applications filed to protect a same invention in different jurisdictions. Patents in a family are related to each other through priority filings. By definition, IP5 patent families are filed in at least two offices worldwide, one of which being one of the five largest Intellectual Property (IP) offices. Each inventor receives a weight corresponding to the number of patent families for which he/she is listed amongst the inventor. The gender of the inventor is identified using a gender-name dictionary (first names by country). Data for 2016 and 2017 are estimates based on available data for those years. Two thresholds are applied to select the countries in the database: more than 50 inventors per year, and more than 60% of inventor's names matched to gender. EU28 and OECD aggregates only include countries that satisfy these thresholds
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs are important sources of innovation, growth and employment. The recent crisis, characterised by tighter credit restrictions, has arguably hampered new start-ups and impeded growth in existing start-ups as well as their ability to survive in tough market conditions. The significant rise in business closures in recent years, especially of micro and small enterprises, bears witness to these difficult conditions and highlights the need for robust and comparable statistics on entrepreneurship.
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