Key figures on European business with a special feature on recession. 2010 Edition.
This publication summarises the main features of European business and its different activities in a concise and simple manner. The publication is intended to function as a showcase for and introduction to the data available in this field. [+]

45 000 loans could be given over the next 8 years, specifically targeting the unemployed young people and people from disadvantage groups. People that have great ideas can now turn it to a successful future. (W3 DG Empleo, Asunto Sociales e Igualdad de Oportunidades, 28.7.2010)

TEEB – The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. Report for Business.
Business and enterprise have a huge role to play in how we manage, safeguard and invest in our natural capital. This report is aimed squarely at this sector and will provide practical guidance on the issues and the opportunities created by the inclusion in mainstream business practices of ecosystem- and biodiversity-related considerations. This report is for a wide array of enterprises, including those with direct impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, such as mining, oil and gas and infrastructure; for those businesses that depend on healthy ecosystems and biodiversity for production, such as agriculture and fisheries; for industry sectors that finance and undergird economic activity and growth, like banks and asset managers, as well as insurance and business services; and for businesses that are selling ecosystem services or biodiversity-related products such as eco-tourism, eco-agriculture and bio-carbon. Please click here for quotes of Support for TEEB for Business.

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TEEB for Business Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Business, biodiversity and ecosystem services
Chapter 2: Business impacts and dependence on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Chapter 3: Measuring and reporting biodiversity and ecosystem impacts and dependence
Chapter 4: Scaling down biodiversity and ecosystem risks to business
Chapter 5: Increasing biodiversity business opportunities
Chapter 6: Business, biodiversity and sustainable development
Chapter 7: A recipe for biodiversity and business growth.  
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Non-financial corporations in the opening phase of the financial crisis
Statistics in focus. Economy and finance 34/2010
This Statistics in Focus analyses the financial behaviour of non-financial corporations in the European Union up to 2008. Taking into account the important changes in financial markets that occurred in this year, it is important to analyze how these changes affected net financial wealth of non financial corporations (including both assets and liabilities) and if the beginning of the crisis has had an impact on the credit access of companies. As it will be seen, both variables were affected by the crisis. [+]

Quarterly Panorama of European business statistics - No. 2-2010
The Quarterly Panorama of European business statistics is a tool to follow the evolution of the short-term trends of the European economy in the industrial, construction, trade and other service sectors. The panorama is now a web-publication available also through a dedicated section on the Eurostat web-site. [+]

European SMEs under Pressure: Annual Report on EU Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises 2009.
This report was prepared by EIM Business & Policy Research with financial support of the European Communities, under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme 2007-2013.
The purpose of the SME Performance Review (SPR) is to provide  information on the situation of SMEs and SME policy in the EU, as a contribution to evidence-based and effective (SME) policy making. It was launched in 2008, the same year as the Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) (1). The SPR follows the logic of the SBA’s 10 principles – Entrepreneurship, Second Chance, Think Small First, Responsive Administration, Finance, Public Procurement and State Aid, Single Market, Skills and Innovation, Environment and Internationalisation – which were developed to guide the conception and implementation of policies. As a consequence, the SPR may therefore also facilitate the policy dialogue between Member States and the European Commission as regards the SBA implementation. [+]

Se han concedido los Premios Europeos de Medio Ambiente para Empresas Europeas de 2010. Las empresas galardonadas son del Reino Unido, Bélgica, Alemania y España. Los ganadores han sido dados a conocer por el Comisario Europeo de Medio Ambiente, Janez Potočnik, en Bruselas en una ceremonia que formaba parte de la conferencia anual de la Semana Verde. Los premios son un reconocimiento «a las mejores entre las mejores» empresas que ya han sido premiadas a nivel nacional. (RAPID, IP/10/664, 2.6.2010)

Implementación del Programa Comunitario de Lisboa. Una política moderna de la Pyme para el crecimiento y el empleo (COM(2005) 551 final, 10.11.2005)

Alex Rialp, Josep Rialp, Gary A. Knight
La vocación global de los nuevos modelos de pymes. El caso de las empresas born globals
Economía Industrial. # 375. 2010
La internacionalización empresarial, generalmente entendida como el proceso de actuar más allá de las fronteras domésticas (Welch y Loustarinen, 1988) y de adaptar la actuación de la empresa al escenario internacional (Calof y Beamish, 1995), puede considerarse como una cuestión clave en la estrategia actual de muchas empresas (Welch y Welch, 1996). [+]

Raúl Mínguez Fuentes
Cooperación para la internacionalización como estrategia de expansión exterior de la pyme
Economía Industrial. # 375. 2010
La globalización es probablemente el proceso más destacado al que se enfrenta el mundo desde el último tercio del siglo XX. La intensificación y diversificación de las relaciones en los mercados de bienes, servicios y factores productivos condiciona la operativa y estrategia de los diferentes agentes económicos. [+]