Talk:Small and medium-sized enterprises/Archives/2012

Origin
er.. Im going to have to say that this term was originally developed by the Canadian Government.. but I guess this isnt a history page.
 * Get a source on that and add it in, it's an interesting tidbit :) Shanada 08:51, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

US Small Business size
The US does maintain legal definitions for what constitutes a small business; the Small Business Administration maintains a web site, and the URL http://www.sba.gov/size/indexguide.html does provide some information, based on employee count and annual receipts.

The key difference vis-a-vis the EU seems to be that the US government maintains different size standards on a per-industry basis, so that the small businesses are defined as small in their class. Some industries are naturally more employee-intensive.

move to small and medium-sized enterprises
I have edited the page to include the normal, well-established, and much more common expression small and medium-sized enterprises and the very common small and medium-sized businesses at the beginning of the article in accordance with WP naming conventions. Edit: I now realised that the expression is actually a bit illogical and much less common in the singular, so it seems the article should be moved to small and medium enterprises or the much more common small and medium-sized enterprises. I added the search results for the plural expressions:

Google: 243,000 for "small and medium-sized enterprise, 546,000 for "small and medium-sized business, 528 for site:edu "small and medium-sized enterprise, 931 for site:edu "small and medium-sized business, 21,900 for site:uk "small and medium-sized enterprise, 32,100 for site:uk "small and medium-sized business, 1,640,000 for site:uk "small and medium enterprise, 30,600 for site:uk "small and medium business, 630 for site:edu "small and medium enterprise, 800 for site:edu "small and medium business.

2,190,000 for "small and medium-sized enterprises, 2,130,000 for "small and medium-sized businesses, 31,500 for site:edu "small and medium-sized enterprises, 22,800 for site:edu "small and medium-sized businesses, 259,000 for site:uk "small and medium-sized enterprises, 259,000 for site:uk "small and medium-sized businesses, 134,000 for site:uk "small and medium enterprises, 86,600 for site:uk "small and medium businesses, 25,800 for site:edu "small and medium enterprises, 1,260 for site:edu "small and medium businesses --Espoo 09:15, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Driving innovation
Can you add some footnotes to the statment that the SMEs are driving factor behind innovation? I mean that it does not has to be so; it would be good to argument it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.29.249 (talk) 03:45, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

US Stats
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html - I found this while searching around, it appears as if it could provide this article with some interesting statistics on US businesses. I'd place the information in the article myself, but I'm a little busy. I'll try and come back later, but if I don't I'll leave this link here so someone else can parse out the useful information. --Patorjk (talk) 13:58, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Kenya
Again, this is not understandable. It seems to redefine what SME stands for and adds the new definition of MSME. The final sentences aren't complete sentences and don't make any sense as far as I can ascertain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.72.92.194 (talk) 12:28, 19 December 2012 (UTC)