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Micro businesses are a key source of jobs, growth, innovation, local development, the creation of skills and services and a main driver for entrepreneurship. Within the EU, SMEs represent about two thirds of total employment, half of which is in micro enterprises. The operation TRATOKI: Transregional toolkit for micro enterprises focuses on access to finance and to support services for micro-busin ...

SMEs do often not have the necessary economic and human resources to introduce innovation in their production processes. On top of that, “environmental awareness” seems to be less developed and is often seen purely as a cost and not a competitive factor. From a territorial standpoint, SMEs’ growth, if not properly “managed” by policy makers, can significantly increase the consumption of local natu ...