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HomeStudy to map, measure and portray the EU mid-cap landscape
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Study to map, measure and portray the EU mid-cap landscape
Final report
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Middle-sized enterprises (or mid-caps) are those enterprises with at least 250, but less than 1,500 employees. We estimate that they account for more than 13% of overall employment in the European business sector, and around 20% of all employees in the Nordic countries, Luxembourg, Germany, and Austria, while their share on employment is 10% or less in Spain, Portugal, France, Poland, or Greece. Their share is particularly high in industrial ecosystems that are key to the European Union’s competitiveness: Electronics, Aerospace & Defence, Energy, Energy-intensive Industries and Health. Mid-caps most often are not start-ups, but established firms which have already survived the ‘up or out’-phase of early firm evolution. They grow faster than the average enterprise in most EU member states. Their innovation performance is above that of SMEs and slightly below that of large companies. Most of them are also active on markets outside the EU. Family ownership is frequently found among mid-cap firms, but a considerable number of them are also subsidiaries of foreign1- owned multinational companies. The growth of mid-cap firms may be hampered by different factors: most pressing are difficulties in finding employees, supply chain disruptions, regulation and administrative burden, or obstacles in the innovation process. Another challenge is succession in family-owned mid-caps. In addition, rising energy prices and other production inputs emerged as a major challenge for mid-caps in recent months.
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- Corporate author(s): Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) , Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (European Commission) , Integral Research (United Kingdom) , The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI Ireland)
- Personal author(s): Dachs, Bernhard ; Siedschlag, Iulia ; Yan, Weijie ; Yoveska, Maria ; Boeira, Fernanda ; Ivory, Sean
- Themes: Enterprise
- Subject: digital technology , economic growth , ecosystem , EU Member State , innovation , job creation , small and medium-sized enterprises
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-76-54830-0 | DOI 10.2873/546623 | Catalogue number ET-07-22-712-EN-N |
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