Nuria Villalba Villalba
Dinámica del tamaño empresarial en España y en la Unión Europea: Regularidades empíricas
Economía industrial. #374. 2009
En este trabajo se analizan los cambios ocurridos en la distribución del empleo por tamaños de las empresas privadas no agrarias de la UE-15 durante los años noventa, a partir de las estadísticas que proporciona el Observatorio Europeo de la Pyme. Se completa la descripción, para los años setenta y ochenta, con datos relativos a la industria manufacturera de varios países de la UE, EEUU y Japón. Este objetivo ha permitido describir la posición internacional que ocupa la distribución de tamaños de las unidades productivas españolas e identificar los cambios que se han producido en dicha distribución durante los años mencionados. Los principales hallazgos que documenta la información presentada son la reducción del tamaño medio de las unidades productivas y el desplazamiento de la distribución de tamaños. [+]

Ten European companies were shortlisted today for the European Business Awards for the Environment. The finalists represent companies from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, Turkey and the UK. The prizes, awarded by the European Commission every two years, single out European companies that have made an outstanding contributions to sustainable development in four categories - management, products, processes, and international cooperation. The four winners will be announced at a ceremony on 2 June 2010 during Green Week, the Commission's major annual environmental conference and exhibition event in Brussels. The awards go to companies that spur economic growth by contributing to innovation and competitiveness while also protecting the environment. (RAPID, IP/10/275, 12.3.2010)

Quarterly Panorama of European business statistics - 1-2010
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. [+]

¿Quiere saber qué hace la UE para impulsar a las pequeñas empresas de toda Europa y en el mercado global, así como lo que puede hacer por la suya? Este portal recoge toda la información que proporciona la UE acerca de y para las PYME, que va de consejos prácticos a cuestiones relacionadas con las políticas en esta materia, de puntos de contacto locales a enlaces para ayudarle a establecer redes de colaboración. [+]

Business registers - recommendations manual
Eurostat Methodology Workin Papers.
All Member States of the European Union maintain business registers for statistical purposes as a tool for the preparation and coordination of surveys, as a source of information for the statistical analysis of the business population and its demography, for the use of administrative data, and for the identification and construction of statistical units. The Regulation 177/2008 of the European Parliament and the Council (EC) sets out a common framework for the harmonisation of the national business registers for statistical purposes and Article 7 of the Regulation asks for the publication of a business register recommendation manual. The manual aims to explain the reasoning behind the provisions of the Regulation. It aims to provide the extra information required for the correct and consistent interpretation of the Regulation in all countries. This second edition of the manual is derived from the first one published in 2003 and replaces it. The manual has been updated in close cooperation with the Member States. [+]

Are you thinking about setting up your own business or are you already a successful entrepreneur? The Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs exchange scheme offers an excellent opportunity for new entrepreneurs to acquire relevant skills for managing a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME). The new entrepreneurs will learn how to manage an SME as well as getting familiar with the business environment in another EU country by working with an experienced entrepreneur. Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs was launched by the European Commission in February 2009. (RAPID, IP/10/185, 24.2.2010)

Manufacturing industry 1995-2003.
Statistics in focus. Environment and energy 16/2006.
This Statistics in Focus describes and interlinks greenhouse gases emissions with economic and structural statistics in the EU15, Poland and Norway by industry. The focus of this publication concerns the manufacturing industry and its sub-sections within the National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA). The data source is stemming from the national accounts, and questionnaires managed by Eurostat Environment statistics unit. [+]

Pensar primero a pequeña escala. Small Business Act para Europa: iniciativa en favor de las pequeñas empresas (COM(2008) 394 final, 25.6.2008)

European Business - Facts and figures - 2006 edition - Data 1995-2005.
The new edition of European business - Facts and figures gives a comprehensive picture of the structure, development and characteristics of European business and its different activities: from energy and the extractive industries to communications, information services and media. It presents the latest available statistics from a wide selection of statistical sources describing, for each activity, production and employment, country specialisation and regional distribution, cost structures, productivity and profitability, the importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), external trade etc. The accompanying CD-ROM presents the paper publication in an easily accessible electronic format, including all the data, graphs and tables in Excel-format. It also contains more complete, detailed datasets on which the publication is based, a means of easily accessing the most up-to-date live data, as well as a large amount of background information. [+]

Informe sobre los instrumentos financieros del Programa Plurianual en favor de la empresa y el espíritu empresarial, en particular para las pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYME) (2001-2006) (COM(2007) 235 final, 4.5.2007)