"William New" wnew@ip-watch.ch
He also said that www.economicmajority.com had 1,948 companies, = representing 31,503 employees, and 3,258,244,082 EUR turnover, while SAP in Europe is = 20 companies with 20,000 employees, representing 7,514,000,000 EUR in = turnover. His point was to question the economic majority argument.=20
"Small" businesses are 99% of UK businesses[1], but we find it relatively expensive to engage in lobbying or advocacy, because if we let one person do that, it leaves us a man short and we don't have that many to spare. So, the economicmajority.com figures are a massive under-reporting.
Meanwhile, SAP maybe can afford 20 employees-worth of lobbying, even though they're just one business. It doesn't take many SAPs to look like all creative industry wants protectionism.
References. 1. http://www.sbs.gov.uk/sbsgov/action/layer?r.l2=7000000243&r.l1=700000022...