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Elina Priedulena, Hanse Parlament, “Future Trends in the Baltic Sea Region- Potential for SMEs“
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Future trends in the Baltic Sea Region
Elina Priedulena, Hanse Parlament
Part-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund and European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument)
Contents
1. Economic development in Baltic Sea Region (BSR)
- general development trends
- SMEs
2. Trading across borders
3. Innovation
4. Demographic changes
5. Economic Outlook for Lithuania
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Is it worth to operate abroad?
• Large companies have been global for a long time – globalization/internationalization
• SMEs are usually acting on markets
close to home
→ Next step: expand further to other markets, understanding the vast opportunities but also the risks, in large consumer markets like Poland, Russia and Ukraine, because: → more opportunities, even though more competitiveness; more profit for own enterprises
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Economic development
of BSR
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BSR
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Source: HWWI
States of BSR – a vast potential of EU
• 147 million inhabitants = 29% of the population of the EU
• 67 millionen employees (2009) = 31 % of all employees in EU
• 30 % of the GDP of the EU Member States
• export 725 mrd./euro = 33% of exports within EU (2009)
• import 993 mrd./euro = 30% of EU imports (2009)
• more than 100 universities and research institutes
Furthermore
• favourable geographical location regional cooperation in manifold
manner
• EU recognised the potential of BSR and developed the EU Strategy 2020
for the BSR – first specific regional strategy in EU to support and coordinate
collaboration of diverse players on various levels.
Source: HWWI
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Real GDP growth rate,
percentage change on previous year
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Source: Eurostat
Real GDP development and forecast
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2009 2010 2011 2012f 2013f
Denmark -5.8 1.3 1.2 1.4 1.7
Germany -5.1 3.7 3.0 0.8 1.5
Estonia -14.3 2.3 8.0 3.2 4.0
Latvia -17.7 -0.3 4.5 2.5 4.0
Lithuania -14.8 1.4 5.9 2.3 3.8
Poland 1.6 3.9 4.0 2.5 2.8
Finland -8.2 3.6 2.8 0.4 1.8
Sweden -5.2 5.6 4.0 1.4 2.1
Norway -1.7 0.7 2.4 2.7 2.9
• percentage change on previous year
• f=forecast Source: Eurostat
0
50
100
150
200
250
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Ind
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EU 27
Denmark
Germany
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Finland
Sweden
Norway
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GDP per Capita in PPS (EU=100)
Source: Eurostat
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
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SMEs – backbone of the European economy
• enterprises (EU, 2010)
– SME: 99.8% of all enterprises (20.8 Mio.)
• Typical SMEs (92% of all SMEs): micro enterprises
< 10 headcount
• Ø 4 employees/enterprise
– large enterprises: 0.2% of all enterprises (43,000)
• share of employment (EU, 2010)
SMEs EU 27: 66.9% of all employees
85% of net new jobs in the EU between 2002 and 2010 were
created by SMEs
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Trading across borders
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Trading within BSR
The exchange of goods is essential for the cross-border
integration of EU states; Baltic Sea states important trading
partners
international trade through spatial proximity between regions
more intense
→ neighbours within BSR have intense import and export
trading relationships with each other
the traditional economic interconnections between former
Hanseatic cities
Source: HWWI
Major export and import countries of Lithuania 2011
Imports Exports
78159.9 LTL/milj. 69642.5 LTL/mlj.
EU 55.9% 61.4%
Russia 32.8% 16.6%
Germany 9.7% 10.2%
Poland 9.1% 9.3%
Latvia 6.6% 6.9%
Netherlands 4.9% 6.6%
Sweden 3.3% 6.1%
Italy 3.2% 5.2%
Beldium 3.21% 4.1%
Estonia 2.8% 4.1%
Belarus 2.5% 3.6%
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Source: Statistics Lithuania
Corner stones of export and import
Export
Import
15
25%
9%
10%
8%
48%
mineral products
chemical industry products
machinery; mechanicalappliances; electricalequipment
vehicles; aircraft;vessels&associatedtransport equipment
other
35%
11%
12%
8%
34%
mineral products
chemical industryproducts
machinery; mechanicalappliances; electricalequipment
vehicles; aircraft;vessels&associatedtransport equipment
other
Innovation
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Indicators of Innovation
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Innovation
European
Scoreboard₁
GDP share
of R&D₂
expenditures
Share of R&D
employees at
labour forces
Patents per
100.000
inhabitants
Labour force
share of
HRST₃
2009 2008 2007 2007 2009
Rating %
EU 27 - 1.9 1.5 11.7 42.1
Sweden 2 3.8 2.4 29.8 51.2
Finland 3 3.7 3.0 25.1 52.5
Germany 4 2.6 1.7 29.1 47.5
Denmark 6 2.7 2.4 19.4 53.0
Estonia 13 1.3 1.4 1.7 49.2
Poland 26 0.6 0.7 0.4 36.4
Lithuania 27 0.8 1.2 0.2 45.3
Latvia 30 0.6 0.9 0.8 43.3
Russia - 1.0 1.1 (2005) 0.2 -
1) 33 countries by comparison
2) R&D – Research and Development
3) HRST – Human Resources in Science and Technology
Sources: Eurostat (2010); HWWI
Innovation and SMEs
• fundamental, especially in crisis times, for stimulating
the expansion of SMEs, either into existing or new
markets
• compared with large enterprises rather difficult:
finance, technology, shortage of qualified personnel,
limited resources
• Policy responses to those challenges:
Reaching equal big share of GDP into R&D is one
of strategic goal of the EU Strategy 2020. 18
Demographic changes
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Demography
• employment resources is the key factor of economic
development in BSR
• Demografic changes due to:
continued increase of life expectancy
natural population development – averaged EU wide
low rates of fertility
Migration – increased migration from low earn
countries to EU 15
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Effects: aging of society, lack of employment, growing average age of
population, structural issues/changes regarding employment, problems in
social spheres – safeguarding of social pension system, etc. 21
Economic Outlook
for Lithuania
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Economic outlook
• The country’s economy is slowing amid the eurozone
debt crisis
• Nevertheless,
→ the global outlook brightens 2013
→ the economy in Lithuania will recovery
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Yes, it is worth to operate abroad!
• BSR builds a good action place:
“In spite of numerous economic, ecological and cultural
differences, the Baltic Sea States form a cohesive, “domestic
region”. This makes regional cooperation especially important
here, acting as a role model for other regions of Europe. But there
is still more potential to be exploited.”
Günther Oettinger - Commissioner for Energy
• and SMEs:
“…form the backbone of the European economy. They are key to
entrepreneurial spirit and innovation in the EU and thus crucial to
ensure EU competitiveness. “
Erkki Liikanen - Enterprise Commissioner
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Thank you for your attention!
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