This report was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, as part of the programme of work of the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship. The development of Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2020: An OECD Scoreboard is possible thanks to the country experts from participating OECD member and non-member countries who provided information for the country profiles (see below).
The development of the Scoreboard also benefited from the inputs of Delegates of the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE), chaired by Martin Godel (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Switzerland), and members of its Informal Steering Group on SME and Entrepreneurship Financing, chaired by Professor Salvatore Zecchini (Italy).
Data and input provided by Wiebke Bartz-Zuccala (CFE/SMEE), Jurgita Bucyte (LeasEurope), Felix Haas (European Association of Guarantee Institutions), Helmut Kraemer-Eis (European Investment Fund), Kenix Lee (World Federation of Exchanges), Gianluca Riccio (OECD Business and Industry Advisory Committee) and Tania Ziegler (Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance) are gratefully acknowledged. Stefanie Fröhling and Tanja Wulf (German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) provided information on SME and entrepreneurship policies in Germany.
This report was prepared by Kris Boschmans, Policy Analyst (CFE/SMEE) under the supervision of Miriam Koreen (Senior Counsellor, CFE/SMEE) and Lucia Cusmano (Acting Head of Division, CFE/SMEE). Jules Beley, Erika Soki and Maria Zamyatina (Trainees, CFE/SMEE) contributed to the publication. Heather Mortimer-Charoy provided technical support and Francois Iglesias communications support.