Prepared by SILICON, with the support of ANACOM, the study on the ?Adhesion of national SMEs to the practice of electronic commerce?, was presented in the meeting of the Convergence and Development Platform, which took place in Lisbon, April 10, in a time that the application of the information and communication new technologies is presented, more and more, as a stimulator of the national small and medium companies? (SMEs) competitiveness, in the context of the global market.
In general terms, the study demonstrates the existence of a reasonable agreement of the electronic business advantages by the SMEs and a real wish of adhesion to the electronic commerce. About 86% of the exporting companies intend a greater envolvement in the electronic commerce, in next the 12 months. Nevertheless, despite 72% of the SMEs are already represented in the Internet, the number of companies which are not registered in the international search engines is still height. We consider this as a gap in the internationalisation strategy of the national SMEs, by electronic way.
The diagnosis of the access difficulties from national SMEs to the infrastructures and services of the digital economy, in particular the electronic commerce, the central subject of this analysis, was based on the information collected from SMEs, in the scope of the EuroInfoCentres national campaign on the electronic commerce. Launched in 2001, this campaign constituted one of the main actions of the communitarian initiative GoDigital , in the framework of the eEurope 2002 action plan, approved in the European Council of Lisbon (March 2000).
Further information:
- UMIC - Unidade de Missão Inovação e Conhecimento http://www.umic.pt
- POSI - Programa Operacional Sociedade de Informação http://www.fct.mctes.pt/pt/programasinvestimento/posi/posifiles/posi.html
- PROINOV - Programa Integrado de Apoio à Inovação http://www.proinov.gov.pt/
- IAPMEI - Instituto de Apoio às Pequenas e Médias Empresas e ao Investimento http://www.iapmei.pt/
- ADI - Agência de Inovação http://www.adi.pt/
- DGSI - eEurope http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/index_en.htm
- Enterprise Directorate-General - E-business unit, Technologies of the Communication and Information, Industries and Services http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/ict/index.htm
- Information Society Directorate-General http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/information_society/index_en.htm
Related information on ANACOM's website:
- Study main conclusions, in terms of constaints and proposal actions https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=63909
- Electronic Commerce and the PME in analysis https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=99015
