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OECD WORKING PARTY ON SMES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (WPSMEE) ‘BOLOGNA+10’HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON LESSONS FROM THE GLOBAL CRISIS AND THE WAY FORWARD TO JOB CREATION AND GROWTH PARIS , 17-18 NOVEMBER 2010 Issues Paper 1: Innovative SMEs and Entrepreneurship for Job Creation and Growth TABLE OF CONTENTS Background and introduction 3 I. The impact of innovative SMEs and entrepreneurship on job creation and growth 4 II. Barriers to innovative SMEs and entrepreneurship 6 Poorly adapted framework conditions 6 Obstacles to accessing international markets and knowledge flows 6 Weak intellectual assets management by SMEs 7 Lack of entrepreneurial human capital 8 Insufficient exploitation of public research and procurement opportunities 8 III. What can governments do? 9 References 12 Annex 1. Charts 13 Figures Figure 1. Distribution of employment in the manufacturing sector, 5 Figure 2. Employment creation by enterprise births, 2005 and 2006 5 Figure A.1 US Net Job Growth at Startups versus Existing Firms, 1977-200513 Figure A.2 Share of high-growth enterprises (employment definition), 2006 13 Figure A.3 Patent applications filed by young firms, 2005 14 Figure A.4 Firms collaborating in innovation activities, by size, 2002-2004 (as % of all firms) 14 Figure A.5. Population aged 18-64 with training in starting a business, 200814 2 OECD WPSMEE “BOLOGNA +10” HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON “SMEs and Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Global Crisis and the Way Forward to Job Creation and Growth”