Ict, e-business and Small and Medium Enterprises

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Please cite this paper as:

OECD (2004-06-03), “ICT, E-Business and Small and Medium

Enterprises”, OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 86, OECD

Publishing, Paris.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/232556551425

OECD Digital Economy Papers No. 86

ICT, E-Business and Small

and Medium Enterprises

OECD

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ICT, E-BUSINESS AND SMEs 

 

 

 

 

ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT 

 

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FOREWORD 

This report was undertaken by the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE), and 

carried out in co-operation with the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship. It was prepared for the 

second OECD Conference of Ministers Responsible for SMEs held in Istanbul 3-5 June 2004 and hosted 

by the Turkish Ministry for Industry and Trade The report sets out policy messages and recommendations 

from the work undertaken on this topic. These messages and recommendations provide material from 

which governments may draw in promoting innovative SMEs in the global economy. 

Graham Vickery and Ken Sakai, Inho Lee and Hagbong Sim of the OECD’s Directorate for 

Science, Technology and Policy prepared the report, with a contribution by Muriel Faverie, FORUM, 

Université Paris X, Nanterre, France. Preparation of the report received financial assistance from the 

French Government and from the United States Department of Commerce [e-Business Facilitation 

Initiative at the OECD]. It was initially issued under the code DSTI/IND/PME(2002)7/FINAL. 

This report is issued on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. Views 

expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Organisation or its member 

governments. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright OECD, 2004. 

Applications for permission to reproduce or translate all or part of this material should be made to: Head of Publications Service, 

OECD, 2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France. 

 

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