This presentation was featured at the 11th OECD Rural Development Conference held on 9-12 April 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland (UK). More information: www.oecd.org/rural/rural-development-conference/

1. Brendan Burns
Senior Partner of Burns Burns & Burns
Forestry harvesting, extraction & Forestry engineering
Owner of Burns- Scotland
exporting Scottish Kilt accessories
President of the NAT Section
(Agriculture Environment & Rural development)
European Economic & Social Committee in Brussels
Past Policy Chairman of the UK Federation of Small
Businesses
And over the years elected to many more business
associations and UK and EU Government bodies.

2. Promoting
Entrepreneurship
Spotlight on
entrepreneurs and SMEs

3. EU SME definition
Employs less than 250 people
Turns over less that €50million.
The smallest group of SMEs
Employ 10 people
Turns over €2million

6. 75% of solving a problem is to
identify it –
Promoting entrepreneurship.
What is it that you and the
OECD need to know?