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RSSOn 7 February 2025, the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs in collaboration with Technopolis Group, hosted a hybrid workshop on SME internationalisation.
The Commission and the European Union Intellectual Property Office have launched the 2025 SME Fund to provide small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) with financial support to better manage and protect their intangible assets.
This year's Scoreboard highlights investment and competitiveness challenges, along with progress in the green transition.
A new Biotech and Biomanufacturing Hub will support companies – particularly start-ups and SMEs - in bringing innovative products to the EU market and increase their competitiveness. The hub will also help companies identify the support available at EU level and how to access this.
Several barriers were tackled this year, including permitting for wind and solar energy, IBAN discrimination, biopesticides and territorial supply constraints.
Today, the European Commission is publishing the 2025 Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report analysing the strengths and weaknesses of the EU economy. It provides the analytical context for the Competitiveness Compass? an action plan that will reignite economic dynamism in Europe.
The Commission has opened a series of calls for public feedback on four pieces of draft secondary legislation to implement the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), whose objective is to boost the competitiveness of the clean tech sector across Europe.
Calls for feedback on Net-Zero Industry Act secondary legislation
The European Commission opened applications for the Young European Entrepreneur Award. This will allow young innovators across Europe to showcase their ground-breaking ideas, and access valuable mentorship and funding opportunities.
The 2024 survey on SMEs’ access to finance (SAFE) results, an annual survey conducted by the Commission and the European Central Bank, shows businesses facing better financing conditions in the past year, but still not the same as before the general economic downturn.