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審議会
The Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Policy Council (中小企業政策審議会), established in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業省).
Resources used in business activities, such as equipment, technology, and the knowledge and skills individuals have.
設備、技術、個人の有する知識及び技能その他の事業活動に活用される資源
経営の革新
Substantially improving a business's performance by taking up new business activities, such as developing or producing new products, developing or providing new services, introducing new ways of producing or selling products or of providing services, or introducing new management methods.
新商品の開発又は生産、新役務の開発又は提供、商品の新たな生産又は販売の方式の導入、役務の新たな提供の方式の導入、新たな経営管理方法の導入その他の新たな事業活動を行うことにより、その経営の相当程度の向上を図ること
創造的な事業活動
Business activity, undertaken as business innovation (経営の革新) or in starting a business (創業), that makes use of strikingly new technology or a strikingly creative way of managing a business.
経営の革新又は創業の対象となる事業活動のうち、著しい新規性を有する技術又は著しく創造的な経営管理方法を活用したもの
小規模企業者
A business operator with, broadly, 20 or fewer regular employees, or 5 or fewer where its main business is in commerce or services.
おおむね常時使用する従業員の数が二十人（商業又はサービス業に属する事業を主たる事業として営む者については、五人）以下の事業者
基本理念
The basic principles in Article 3: that, since small and medium-sized enterprises (中小企業) form the base of Japan's economy and have an important part in keeping it vigorous, their varied and vigorous growth is to be achieved by encouraging the independent enterprises' own efforts, promoting their business innovation and start-ups, strengthening their business foundations and easing their adaptation to economic and social change, and that small-scale enterprises (小規模企業), which support their regions' economies and residents' lives and contribute to Japan's future development, are to be able to make the most of their vitality in a business environment that supports their own efforts.