Flash Eurobarometer 421: Internationalisation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

To help support SMEs, the EU launched the programme for the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME) in 2014. This survey, launched in the context of this programme, was carried out in the 28 EU countries and in the non-EU countries participating in the COSME programme, to investigate about the experience of these countries' SMEs with international business activities, as well as their experiences and perceptions of importing and exporting. The survey covers:
• The experience of SMEs with international business,
• Export markets, and the proportion of sales generated by exports,
• SMEs' experiences with exporting, including real and perceived barriers,
• Import markets,
• SMEs' experiences with importing, including real and perceived barriers,
• Measures that would help SMEs internationalise,
• SMEs' awareness of the Enterprise Europe Network,
• Use of e-commerce

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics

Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer