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"The strategic attempt to revive European competitiveness, proposed in the Lisbon strategy and reiterated recently at the Competitiveness Council of November 2007, has led the EU to intensify its efforts to enhance European potential for innovation and growth in the face of world competition.
SMEs are the key to a genuine revival of research and development activity because by their very nature they are spurred on towards innovation in their struggle to survive in the marketplace. However, access to R&D activities can sometimes be particularly burdensome in economic and bureaucratic terms.
I therefore endorse this report, which emphasises the need for the EU to apply the ‘think small first’ principle and to boost the potential for innovation and originality of SMEs, which are still one of the main drivers of the European economy.
I think that a policy to promote small enterprise should incorporate subsidies and essential aid for research: examples of this are the ‘Best’ programme, which has facilitated an exchange of best practices between SMEs, the CIP and the 7-initiative policy framework. However, I also think it is essential to adopt a series of measures aimed at promoting entrepreneurship, such as reduction of barriers to the internal market, elimination of bureaucratic obstacles and facilitation of bank loans to SMEs."@en1
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