UEAPME Position Paper

“Small enterprises are the backbone of the European economy…Europe’s efforts to usher in the new economy will succeed only if small businesses are put at the top of the agenda.”

“We will strengthen existing programmes aimed at promoting technology dissemination towards small enterprises as well as the capacity of small businesses to identify, select and adapt technologies.”

(European Charter of Small Enterprises as signed by European Heads of State and Governments in 2000)