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The Sixth Framework Programme, known as FP6, is the EU's main way of providing funding for collaborative research and innovation and wants greater involvement by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With an overall budget of Ђ17.5bn, and due to run...
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CIT Group, the US-based commercial and consumer credit finance firm, announced yesterday that it is to centralise its European operations…
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The number of small businesses going bankrupt is set to hit the highest level in a decade, the Conservative party…
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Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov hailed the growing role small businesses are playing in the economy, but called on the government…
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) have released Ђ5m to Microfinance Bank MIRO,…
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Federal disaster loans are available to small, non-farm, agriculture-dependent businesses in seven Minnesota counties hit by drought this summer, the…
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Small business people continue to withhold their affection from Canada's banks, according to a Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB)…
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Japan's small business confidence rose in September to its highest level in three years, boosted by accelerating growth in the…
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By Graeme Forbes, head of corporate finance with Grant Thornton. Uncertainty over whether the UK will join the euro is…
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Since 1961, hundreds of thousands of small businesses have obtained financing that might not otherwise have been available to them…
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Ontario and Alberta will foster the most growth in small businesses in Canada over the next five years due to…
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Many smaller companies may be assuming that International Accounting Standards (IAS) will not affect them, but, according to the Institute…
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide Kyrgyzstan Bank $3m for small…
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