It is already a truism to state that the development of the e-economy, including e-business, is directly proportional to the level of a country’s economic development. The size of a country is not of decisive importance here, as exemplified by Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, or Sweden. However, in addition to the advancement of this development, other stimuli are also necessary, which can be observed by tracking the specifics of e-business development in various European countries. The European Commission collects such characteristics, with the authors being experts from these countries; there has been no such characteristic from Poland to date. From this collection of examples, two countries were selected that have certain features in common with Polish problems.
E-business development in Spain
Spain is one of the most decentralized European countries, which means that every development strategy, including the promotion of innovation, must be prepared and implemented at two levels: regional and national. This also applied to activities stimulating the development of e-business. In this case, the European Regional Development Fund proved to be a huge help,
which financially supported the development of the so-called information society and the e-economy. With this significant assistance, all initiatives were concentrated in the first five-year period of 2001-2006 on:
• promoting the benefits of e-business among enterprises
• developing e-business in sectors, with particular emphasis on small and medium-sized enterprises
• training management and executive staff
• granting loans to companies wishing to invest in ICT
• lowering taxes for companies implementing these solutions.
• promoting the benefits of e-business among enterprises
• developing e-business in sectors, with particular emphasis on small and medium-sized enterprises
• training management and executive staff
• granting loans to companies wishing to invest in ICT
• lowering taxes for companies implementing these solutions.
The article comes from the magazine “e-Fakty” 3/2006.