Działania wspierające małe i średnie przedsiębiorstwa w kontekście integracji z Unią Europejską

Abstract

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are and will be of a fundamental importance for economic development. Basing economic development on large private companies, which arc owned primarily by foreign investors in Poland, can produce negative effects for the Polish economy in the long term. Hence, it is necessary to develop the SME sector, which calls for an effective support by the State. I he author performed a synthetic assessment of government programmes addressed to SMEs in the context of Poland’s accession to the EU. An attempt was also made to present indispensable changes in the government SME policy, which should allow to harmonise the support for this sector with the EU recommendations and achieve long-term high rate of economic growth through the SME sector development.