Questionnaire for Small and Medium Enterprises Survey

Identification of main Topics of interest for SMEs

Small Business Standards (SBS), the European associations representing SMEs in European and international standardisation, is currently carrying out a study to identify key areas of standardisation for SMEs.

The number of standards developed or revised each year is constantly increasing, at the same time SMEs are active in a big variety of sectors.

By contributing to this questionnaire you are helping SBS to identify key areas of relevance and strategic importance to SMEs from the standardisation point of view so that SBS can concentrate its efforts on these areas in the future.

This questionnaire is addressed to companies (SMEs).

The purpose of this questionnaire is to identify strategic standardisation topics, based on your experience and opinions. In addition, to confirm the criteria to be used to prioritise sectors of particular incidence for SMEs (being aware that SMEs are mostly present in all sectors).

You are kindly requested to identify yourself in the questionnaire, to understand the origin of the comments, but answers will be treated in an aggregated and confidential way.

1.Identification of the Company

Name of the company

Country

Website of your organisation

2.Is your organization:

A micro company: less than 10 employees or less than 2M Euro Turnover and Balance Sheet total

A small company: less than 50 employees and less than 10M Euro Turnover and Balance Sheet total

A medium-size company: less than 250 employess and less than 50M Euro Turnover and 43M Euro Balance Sheet total

Other (please specify)

3.Can you please indicate:

Approximate number of employees:

Turnover of the company:

Is your company part of a group of companies? Please indicate yes/no

6.Do you know if there is a particular concentration of SMEs in various links of the value chain of your sector(s)

Upstream (materials, resources, providers, subcontracting)

Downstream (final products, services, retail)

All links of the value chain

Users of products or services

7.Please provide three Standardisation Topics for which you consider SMEs are mostly affected. Note: Please provide Topics of interest (i.e. Building Information Modelling - BIM is a Topic) and not Sectors (such as Construction, Food and Agriculture, Consumer Services, etc).

Topic one

Topic two

Topic three

9.Please explain why you chose the above selected topics

10.Which new trends will possibly affect your company in the future?

Current Progress,

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