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Italian regional SME policy responses

The note developed by the CD Trento Centre for Local Development of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) provides a preliminary inventory of the policy responses adopted by the Italian regions to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Italian economy provides background...Read more
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Registering Top Level Domain names in China

Internet usage is truly booming in China, with more than 701 million ‘netizens’ (as of December 2016), China connects more people to the Internet than any other country. In fact, every fourth person on the Internet is from China. Facilitated by the increasing availability of broadband technology and the growing trend towards online shopping and purchasing, the Internet is an attractive business and...Read more
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Bad Faith Trade Mark Registrations in China and How to Deal with It

Prior trade mark registrations, also called ‘bad-faith registrations’, are a significant problem that many European companies encounter in China. This process commonly involves a Chinese company first registering the trade mark of a foreign company in China with the express intention of selling it back to the foreign company at an inflated price. Finding out that a Chinese company has registered a bad...Read more
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A new initiative to support business and professional associations in Azerbaijan

KOBIA - the mission of the Small and Medium Business Development Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Azerbaijan have launched a new initiative to support business associations, aimed at developing a partnership between the state, private and civil society on joint socio-economic goals. As part of the initiative, USAID will provide...Read more
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SMEs Go International: Launch Postponed

The ‘ SMEs Go International’ Technical Assistance Facility is a support service of the European Commission to provide tailored support for the internationalisation effort of European SMEs. It is our regret to announce, in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic developments, the postponement of the launch of call originally planned for 20 March 2020. The new date of the call will be defined in upcoming...Read more
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Upcoming SMEs Go International Technical Assistance Facility

The ECCP is planning to launch the ‘SMEs Go International Technical Assistance Facility’. Stay tuned for our call for concept notes that will be launched in the coming weeks ! Who is this for ? This is a unique opportunity exclusively available for EU based SMEs that participated in the activities of ESCP4i Partnerships in the past. Vision of the Facility : The objective is to support European SMEs to...Read more
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KET4CleanProduction Project: Open call for micro grants

Deadline for application: 29th April 2020, 17:00 CET The EU-funded project KET4CleanProduction (KET4CP) sets its strategic objectives on helping SMEs to solve their clean production challenges and - as a result - to stay sustainable, innovative and competitive. By encouraging the use of advanced manufacturing technologies and related key enabling technologies (KETs) their production processes suppose to...Read more
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Marking Your Territory: Choosing a Trade Mark in China

In one of the most famous trade mark infringement case, New Balance Trading (China) – the Chinese affiliate of US sports footwear brand, New Balance – was ordered by a Guangzhou court to pay RMB98 million in compensation (equivalent to approximately EUR14.3 million), and to publicly apologise to Chinese businessman, Mr Yuelin Zhou, for trademark infringement. The trade mark in question was “新百伦”, or “Xin...Read more
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IraSME: The 25th call for proposals

Deadline: March 26th, 2020 IraSME , a follow-up initiative of an ERA-NET by ministries and funding agencies, is a network of funding programmes from different countries / regions that share the same goal: supporting small businesses in their innovation efforts. The network is coordinated by AiF Projekt GmbH and financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). The main...Read more
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Enterprise Europe Network presents SME Growth Outlook for 2019-20

The SME Growth Outlook 2019-20 report produced by the Enterprise Europe Network provides a snapshot of the current situation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe, based on survey data from businesses using the Network's services. It contains many useful insights as it captures the views of a number of small businesses on how they expect growth in terms of turnover, workforce, market...Read more
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