SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in the Slovak Republic
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.
The local dimension of SME and entrepreneurship policy in the Slovak Republic
This chapter assesses differences in regional conditions for entrepreneurship and SME development within the Slovak Republic and the regional-level policies aimed at supporting development in the whole country. It assesses regional conditions for SME and entrepreneurship development and considers current arrangements for the tailoring of SME and entrepreneurship policies to different regional needs. A number of policy recommendations are proposed.
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