ASSESSING SBA PERFORMANCE IN MEMBER STATES

1. Entrepreneurship

• Self-employment rate (% of total employment)
• Entrepreneurship rate (% of adults who have started a business or are taking the steps to start one)
• Entrepreneurial intention (% of adults who intend to start a business within 3 years)
• Opportunity-driven entrepreneurship (% of entrepreneurs)
• Preference for self-employment (% of adults who would prefer to be self-employed)
• Feasibility of becoming self-employed (% of adults who think it is feasible to become self-employed)
• Share of adults who agree that school education helped them develop an entrepreneurial attitude (%)
• Share of adults who think that successful entrepreneurs receive a high status in society (%)
• Media attention for entrepreneurship (%)

2. Second Chance

• Time to close a business (in years)
• Cost to close a business (cost to recover debt as % of the debtor's estate)
• Degree of support for a second chance (%)

3. Think Small First

• Comunication and simplification of rules and procedures (0= maximum, 6= minimum)
• Burden of government regulations (1= burdensome, 7= not burdensome)
• Licenses and permits system (0= maximum, 6= minimum)

4. Responsive Administration

• Time to start a business (in calendar days)
• Cost to start a business (in Euros)
• Paid in minimum capital (% of income per capita)
• Time required to transfer property (in calendar days)
• Cost required to transfer property (% of property value)
• Number of tax payments per year
• Time required to comply with major taxes (hours per year)
• Cost to enforce contracts (% of claim)
• Use of e-government services for SMEs (%)
• Licensing complexity (Index)

5. State Aid and Public Procurement

• SMEs' share in total value of public contracts awarded (%)
• State Aid for SMEs (% of total aid earmarked for SMEs)
• Average delay in payments from public authorities (in days)
• Use of e-procurement services (% of SMEs)

6. Access to Finance

• Rejected loan applications and unacceptable loan offers (% of loan applications by SMEs)
• Access to public financial support including guarantees (% of respondents)
• Willingness of banks to provide a loan (% of respondents)
• Relative difference in interest rate between loans up to EUR 1 million and loans over EUR 1 million (%)
• Total duration to get paid (No of days)
• Lost payments (% of total turnover)
• Venture capital investments- early stage (% of GDP)
• Strengths of legal rights
• Depth of credit information Index
• EU regional funds for entrepreneurship and SMEs (% of total allocation)
• EU funds for business creation and development (% of EAFRD total allocation)

7. Single Market

• SMEs with intra-EU imports (%)
• SMEs with intra-EU exports (%)
• Single market directives not transposed or notified (%)
• Number of directives overdue by 2+ years
• Average transposition delay for overdue directives (in months)

8. Skills and Innovation

• SMEs introducing product or process innovation (% of SMEs)
• SMEs introducing marketing or organisational innovation (% of SMEs)
• SMEs innovation in-house (% of SMEs)
• Innovative SMEs collaborating with others (% of SMEs)
• Sales of new-to market and new-to-firm innovation (% of turnover)
• SMEs participating in EU funded research (number per 100,000 SMEs)
• SMEs selling online (% of SMEs)
• SMEs purchasing online (% of SMEs)
• Enterprises providing training to their employees (% of all enterprises)
• Employees' participation rate in education and training (% of total number of employees in microfirms)

9. Environment

• Innovations with environmental benefits
• SMEs that have taken resource-efficiency measures (%)
• SMEs that have benefitted from public support measures for their resource-efficiency actions (%)
• SMEs that offer green products or services (%)
• SMEs with turnover share of more than 50% generated by green products or services (%)
• SMEs that have benefitted from public support measures for their production of green products (%)

10. Internationalisation

• SMEs importing from outside the EU (% of SMEs)
• SMEs exporting outside the EU (% of SMEs)
• Cost required to import (in USD)
• Time required to import (in days)
• Number of documents required to import
• Cost required to export (in USD)
• Time required to export (in days)
• Number of documents required to export