bEnEFITS oF InTERnATIonAL ACTIVITy We know that SMEs with greater internationalisation tend to report higher turnover growth (BIS 2010). There is also other evidence that an international outlook is good for business. More than 50% of EU SMEs that invested abroad and that were involved in international subcontracting reported increasing turnover from 2007 to 2008, compared with 35% of all SMEs (van Elk et al. 2009).
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