notes from ALL EEP lessons

EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE POLICY
- EUROPEON ENTERPRISE POLICY: INTRO
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A MINDSET
- STRART-UPS
- SCALE-UPS
- DELOCALIZATION & RESHORING
- BANKRUPTCY & SECOND-CHANCE
- THE FINANCING PARADOX
- EQUITY
- THE CROWD
- INCUBATORS, ACCELERATORS, HACKATHONS
- ZOMBIES, EX-NOVATION & INNOVATION
- GENDER ISSUE

CHAPTER 1 & 4: INTRO

1. INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE POLICY

WHAT IS POLICY?

- State
- Government
- Citizenship
- Thinking, making & doing
- a set of ideas/a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially
o by a group of people
o by a business organization
o by a university
o by a government
o by a political party

WHERE SHOULD POLICY INTERVENE?

- First thing we do: check if the market fails
- If the objective can be realized by the market, we don’t need policy à market
- If the objective can’t be realized by the market, we need policy à education
o price of education is fixed by government à everybody should have access to education for
the same price




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,THE RIGHT MIX?

FREE MARKET GOV’ INTERVENTION


Entrepreneurs able to make profits Progressive taxes to reduce inequality


Freedom to set up a business Government regulations


Prices determined by market forces (smartphones) Taxes on goods (ecology)


Private ownership of business Government provision of public goods


GOV/GDP

1. market first
2. government if market fails

WHY DO WE NEED POLICY?

- Objectives not realized by the invisible hand
- 3 steps of implementation
o Identify the market failure
o Correct the market failure
o Take-over


MAIN INSTRUMENTS




Elastic of prices à you increase the price of cigarettes gradually: taxes (the trade-of between health and the tax)




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,WHY ENTERPRISE POLICY?

- To do something when the market fails
- Why does the market fail? Why do we care?
- Objectives
- Where is the market failure?
- How to cope with it?
o Identify the market failure
o Try to make the market work
o Only then, government can take over
- Quantifiable objectives
o More start-ups +
o More growers +
o Less bankruptcy -
o Avoid delocalization -

OVERVIEW

1. Starters
a. Entrepreneurship attitude
b. Seed money
c. Ecosystems
d. Incubations/hackathons
e. Female entrepreneurship
2. Growth potential
a. HGF: high growth firms
b. Ingredients for growth
c. Growth strategies
d. M&A
e. Scale-up money
3. Bankruptcy
a. Early warning
b. Zombies
c. Exnovation/innovation
d. 2nd chance
e. Bankruptcy laws
4. Delocalisation
a. Scale-up gap
b. Competition policy
c. Retention & Reshoring

WHAT EUROPEAN LEVEL?

- EU
- EEA (European economic area)
- Schengen
- Eurozone

WHY ENTERPRISE POLICY AT EUROPEAN LEVEL?

- Multi-level governance
- Efficiency versus overlapping
- Subsidiarity




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, Golden institutional triangle

European commission




Council parliament

Member states citizens

COUNCIL

- Council of the EU
o Prime ministers
o Subject ministers
o Rotating presidency
- The European Council
o Sets the agenda
o It is not a EU’s legislating institution
o 2.5 years president
o NOT to be confounded with Council of Europe

PARLIAMENT

- 705 seats
- Directly elected every 5 years
- Seat in Strasbourg, convenes in Strasbourg & Brussels
- No right to initiate legislation

COMMISSION

- Non-elected members
- 1 by MS (= too much)
- Proposes
- Executes: 50 000 officials
- Assisted by advisory bodies
o Committee of the Regions
o European economic and social committee

WHEN EU – LEVEL?

1. Private sector’s responsibility
2. Subsidiarity (only on european level if there is an added value, otherwise always choose the local
level)
3. Unanimity In decision making (MFF)
ð LIMITED SCOPE




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