The COVID crisis: impact on SMEs
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            How can SMEs respond: the triple 
            transition
                                           Sustainability                    Digitalisation
                                                              Resilience
        Greater resilience
        • Greater security of supply: “strategic autonomy”
        • Sustainability 
        • Digitalisation 
        • Improved access to funding and finance
        • Renewed emphasis on the Single Market and beyond – major 
          opportunity for SMEs to expand customer base
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       How can the EU help?
       • Focus on delivering and enforcing the Single Market, 
         especially on services
       • Trade agreements
       • International partnerships: Enterprise Europe Network
       • Supporting entrepreneurship: Erasmus for Young 
         Entrepreneurs (EYE)
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                             The Enterprise Europe 
                                            Network
                 A broad range of services for growth-
                 oriented SMEs
                        INTERNATIONAL 
                        INTERNATIONAL                                    INNOVATION
                                                  ADVISORY               INNOVATION
                        PARTNERSHIPS              ADVISORY 
                        PARTNERSHIPS                                      SUPPORT
                                                  SUPPORT                 SUPPORT
                                                  SUPPORT
                                                                      Access to finance and 
                       Partnership database                           Access to finance and 
                       Partnership database   Advice on EU laws and        funding
                                              Advice on EU laws and        funding
                                                                       Access to finance and 
                                                  standards            Access to finance and 
                                                  standards                 fundng
                        Brokerage events                                    fundng
                        Brokerage events                             Innovation Management 
                                                                     Innovation Management 
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                                                                          Services
                                                                      Innovation Management 
                                               Market intelligence    Innovation Management 
                        Company missions       Market intelligence         Services
                        Company missions                                   Services
                                                                       Technology transfer
                                                                       Technology transfer
                                                                       Technology transfer
                                                  IPR expertise        Technology transfer
                                                  IPR expertise
                                              Sustainability Advisors 
                                              Sustainability Advisors 
                                              and other sustainability 
                                              and other sustainability 
                                                   services
                                                   services
                                             Support for digitalisation 
                                             Support for digitalisation 
                                              with Digital Innovation 
                                              with Digital Innovation 
                                                    Hubs
                                                    Hubs