Boosting E-Commerce in the Digital Single Market: A Foundation for European Growth and Competitiveness

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This paper reviews global trends in e-commerce and provides an analysis of the opportunities a Digital Single Market (DSM) would create for European entrepreneurs. The paper argues that the economic impact of the DSM could be enhanced by placing greater attention on the enabling conditions for entrepreneurial success, particularly by ensuring entrepreneurs have access to anchor customers, an ample supply of growth capital, sophisticated management talent and well-coordinated supports for scale-ups and internationalisation.

This document was prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, September 2016: Boosting E-Commerce in the Digital Single Market: A Foundation for European Growth and Competitiveness http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/587297/IPOL_IDA(2016)587297_EN.pdf

ESO: Background information: Antitrust: Commission publishes initial findings of e-commerce sector inquiry http://www.europeansources.info/record/antitrust-commission-publishes-initial-findings-of-e-commerce-sector-inquiry/

ESO: Background information: Digital Single Market: boosting e-commerce and combatting consumer discrimination in the EU. 8th Meeting of the IMCO Working Group on the Digital Single Market http://www.europeansources.info/record/digital-single-market-boosting-e-commerce-and-combatting-consumer-discrimination-in-the-eu-8th-meeting-of-the-imco-working-group-on-the-digital-single-market/

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