Strategies of the Development of Entrepreneurship and SME

GREECESTRENGHT• They have a vital role in reducingunemployment• Emerging awareness of the importance forglobal• Competitiveness and innovativeness.• Creativity and positive attitude towardsentrepreneurship as a source of individualwealth.• Facilitation of networking by EU-wideinstitutions.• Innovativeness in the service sector.OPPORTUNITY• Acceptance of Lisbon Strategy.• Cluster policies.• Further opening of the economies in theBalkan, Black Sea and Mediterraneancountries.• Labor and capital mobility across Europe.• Continuity for simplification or unification oflicensing etc.• National Council for SMEs.• New breed of structural funds for 2007-2013.• Increasing education and training activities.WEAKNESS• Low private and public expenditures onR&D• Inadequate trainers and participation inlifelong learning programs.• Inadequate transportation andinterconnection in modes of transport andinfrastructure.• Insufficient transition from a small ormedium-size “family business" to a“professionally managed business.• Product orientation and size of theproduction sector.• Insufficient amount of qualified labor force.THREATS• Decreased EU funds.• Competition by neighbouring countriesoffering low labour cost.• Slow adaptation of the educational andtraining system to the requirements ofknowledge intensive entrepreneurship andglobal competition.• Deindustrialization trends.Source: Dr. Dilek Centindamar, Sabancini University, and Umut Yilmaz Cetinkaya, 2007146