A too play on offer is neglected the application

Congratulations! Undoubtedly, the announcement by Renaud Dutreil, Minister of SMEs, to create a status for the "business angels" goes in the right direction. It was time, because if, in France, large business consumes the attention of the policy, SMEs - SMIs, first source of wealth and employment, are not a comprehensive plan to the interest they represent for the country's economy.

French SME development is a concern of the Villepin Government for several months. The reports "to let run the gazelles" traffic did not fail. However, decisions, while going in the right direction, remain too fragmented.

And this problem is all the more important that on the eve of decisive elections the question of the redistribution of resources, the increase in the purchasing power of consumption, is sure to monopolize the political debate. It should not do wrong. The relative weakness of investment and the bad situation of our trade are disturbing. Because, if the France consumes, it is without doubt the only engine of growth... the Germany, proactive, invests. A too play on offer, is neglected the application.

This is the belief of business and progress: the key to the return of growth is at the level of the offer, business, and not the application. In this area, undoubtedly, it is on SMEs - SMIs should make the effort. Concrete and variety of our members experience emerge three recommendations.

Probably iconoclastic idea, it appears however that the leader may be the first brake on the development of its business and momentum. Why Rapid growth requires strategic vision and adequate actions plans, difficult for the contractor to "glue" to his case. Therefore, training of the leader, at each stage of the development of the case, especially when it must engage in the international market, must be recommended. Access to this expertise strategic, legal, social, are multiple. Mentoring appears to be the most effective tool, to take the shape of the device Plato (tutoring provided by executives of large companies), networks Alizé (very large companies associated with local communities via the ICC), the coaching of young retirees or a "Strategic Committee" available to the business leader to guide it into the choices that are sensitive.

But, without a dynamic pool of SMEs, it is illusory to give birth to gazelles that "boosteront" the French economy of tomorrow. In this context, it should be to create a simple interface between the contractor and the administrations concerned, what is also called "one-stop" designed to scan all of the problems encountered by the contractor in a transversal manner. For example, international, the multiplicity of administrative interventions is to the France to reach 160th in the classification of Doing Business, the World Bank on the criteria for registration of the property. However, this interface can be ensured by public servants which in-depth courses will be given an understanding of business issues. Thus, the administration will be at the service of entrepreneurs and companies, only creative of merchant jobs, and not vice versa.

However, the weakest link in the France in this case, and he is pleased that the Government had become aware, is the "business angel". When the hexagon has no more than 4,000 of these private investors supporting the growing promising shoots, the United States are 400.000, Britain 50,000. Difficult to catch up with delay. Only the establishment of a statute will nonetheless enable out of the decisions contained in too many laws of finance, and who gave that some tax benefits to investors in inevitably, accompanying such shadow in the shoes of the passing of multiple restrictive conditions, making them ultimately ineffective. 100,000 jobs not created in France or capital to invest. This sad balance is no stranger to the wise decision of the Government. Must provide own, recognized, flexible, and secure status the particular investor wishing to accompany by its financial support but also its Board and experience the business that he decided to accompany in its development.

If yet the approach of the Government can only be leased, wants really give the "business angels" their full effectiveness If this is the case, why therefore imposing restrictions and obstacles Take care not to build "a gas plant. Because if the choice of this SAS of benefits some one-person , this company is very flexible , impose on the "business angel" a Commissioner of accounts, additional obstacle to taking initiative, seems unnecessary and contrary to the spirit of flexibility for individual investment. The EURL, that barrier is same flexibility and tax benefits but is devoid of this constraint, would have been more appropriate. The imposition of the minimum four investors to access the status of "business angel" society seems also contradictory relying on an alleged distribution of risk. Let, once is not custom, free and responsible retail investors left to improve, road making, their status, in the light of experience.