1. Member States Board on Digital Entrepreneurship
Panel 1: Digital Entrepreneurship Monitor
Digital Entrepreneurship: Focus on Malta
Karl Herrera
Malta Enterprise

2. How does your organisation help SMEs?
Malta Enterprise is the Maltese Government’s agency responsible for promoting investment and innovation.
Our main activities are:
Investment promotion;
Administration of fiscal incentives to support investment, R&D and Innovation.
Supporting capacity building, innovation and knowledge transfer in SMEs.
Malta Enterprise is also collaborating in the implementation of the Digital Malta strategy.
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What type of actions/initiatives are pursued on the area of Digital Entrepreneurship
Target of these digital Entrepreneurship initiatives
National Strategy on Digital Entrepreneurship

3. What are the main barriers that your organisation helps to remove for digital entrepreneurs?
Access to Finance
Support for the develop of online presence
Integration of digital technology in established work practices
Attaining Certification and Quality Marks
Access to Independent Advisory Services

4. Supporting access to start-up and seed funding.
What more could the public sector do to support the growth of digital SMEs?
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For example:
On a specific area
On a short-medium-long timeframe
Supporting access to start-up and seed funding.
This could include facilitating business angels network and investigating the potential of crowd-funding.
Review of market structures to ensure that the digital market is not restricted to SMEs.
Example: SMEs are likely to require access to larger/global channel platforms to provide digital products and services. These might impose restrictions that limit the applicability of the channel to the SME due issues such as geographic location and language.