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 2022: 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 Committee on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (CSMEE), 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 Bryan O’Callaghan and Luke Heeney (Oxford Global Recovery Observatory), Helena Mölter (Wuppertal Institute), Felix Haas (European Association of Guarantee Institutions), Helmut Kraemer-Eis and Frank Lang (European Investment Fund), and Bryan Zhen Zhang (Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance) are gratefully acknowledged. Matt Adey (British Business Bank) provided information on SME and entrepreneurship policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
This report was prepared by María Camila Jiménez (Policy Analyst, CFE/EST), Stephan Raes (Policy Analyst, CFE/EST), Marija Kuzmanovic (Policy Analyst, CFE/EST), and Cosimo Pacciani (Trainee, CFE/EST), with input from Marco Marchese (Policy Analyst, CFE/EST), under the supervision of Miriam Koreen (Senior Counsellor, CFE/EST) and Celine Kauffmann (Head of Division, CFE/EST). Heather Mortimer-Charoy provided technical support. Support from the CFE Communications and Public Affairs unit is gratefully acknowledged: Pilar Philip and François Iglesias for the production process, Shayne MacLachlan and Pauline Arbel for advice on promotion and Lukasz Lech for outreach efforts.