France it becomes contractor by necessity not by opportunity

In times of crisis, there is a tendency to rejoice in the French model: a quarter of employees safeguard their employment with their civil servant status, the income of pensioners is provided through the system of retirement, and so on. To revive the economy, the Government detailed a thousand programs of Government and local investment. Should he not rather forward measures to boost our entrepreneurial fabric The economy application before reinventing new economic models and to explore new fields of growth. Entrepreneurs, more than the State, have the capacity for innovation.

It is never the repeated enough: these are the entrepreneurs that create growth, employment, wealth. SMEs represent 60 of the jobs in France and realize the two-thirds of the investment. They have already created 500,000 jobs last year and an increase in numbers of SMEs by 20 is still planned over the next ten years, when large groups reduce their all.

We would also be wrong to us satisfy the recent figures on start-ups, who beat new records in France each year. Certainly, 327.396 companies were created in 2008, nearly double from ten years ago. In addition, 70,000 autoentrepreneurs were reported since the beginning of the year. But, in their vast majority, these new businesses generate growth. More than 80 of them have no employee and 40 of them are started by unemployed people who are the way to recreate their employment. France, it becomes contractor by necessity, not by opportunity. However, the current crisis go away by the emergence of these growth firms which our country lacking: only 10 of companies exceed ten employees after five years and 1 will eventually exceed 50 employees. The France account 4,000 companies from 250 to 1,000 employees, 8,500 in Britain and 11.200 in Germany. Only 40 of the top 100 U.S. companies existed 30 years ago, against 90 of the top 100 French companies.

Why the France has both difficult to produce Apple, Google or eBay A company cannot grow if it is innovative. However blockages inherent to the world of research and universities make difficult the transformation of innovation into a business opportunity. In addition, when a company creates around an innovative concept, it faces the difficulty of finding funding, problem tenfold by the crisis. Meet the first funds when the project is still only a concept within the course of the combatant in France. A French company in three starts with less than 5,000 euros, and only one in 100 has an initial capital greater than 100,000 euros. So how can we cope with technological developments rapidly reaching millions of euros Institutional funds prefer to invest in mature businesses, once the first obtained customers and affect profitability. The angels (or "business angels"), they cannot find in our tax rules a sufficient incentive to take such an operational risk.

In the end, French Governments have never developed the contractor to the place it deserves. However, to build the future, better help entrepreneurs succeed, that is to create the conditions for innovation and growth, rather than spend the entirety of our GDP reserve available in solutions for short-term relief of the difficulties. The creation of wealth, worn mainly by contractors, is the precondition for the resumption of the power to purchase and social protection, certainly not the opposite.

Countries maximize their entrepreneurial potential will emerge the first of this crisis. The Government wants to boost the economy by a program of public investments. The opposition responded with a massive plan of support for consumption. It is the account.