Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual model of business development that provides operational ways to increase the competitive presence of more micro and small ventures (both actual and new) in enlarged markets, including international ones. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops a conceptual model starting from the identification of the most usual constraints limiting the SMEs and entrepreneurship development and success. After this stage, the model was built with the help of selected concepts, which represent a theoretical framework of support. Findings Regarding the universe of SME and entrepreneurship, the authors usually find some weaknesses: markets mainly local/regional, absence of growth, cooperative networks and/or international operations, because of several usual constraints: limited competences and resources, absence of critical mass on buying/selling and difficulty to cooperate. These shortcomings represent an economic waste when there are competitive offers and/or endogenous resources. Research limitations/implications The model will be applied in a Portuguese county, in this way the authors expect to make an empirical research in the near future. Practical implications The model surpasses the, usual, limited skills of people and organisations betting in their competitive specialisation, with the assumptions that few people can be successful entrepreneurs/managers, but quite everyone can perform something competitively. The organisation/structure – Local Development Platform (LDP) – has the responsibility to assure the competitiveness of value chains built over networks of these agents. Additionally, the LDP should provide collective resources to lower the investments and operational needs of the agents involved, provide the added value services necessary for offers and agents’ competitiveness, achieve critical mass on buying and selling and enlarge/open new markets. These resources are organised in up to five specialised platforms, to service a strategy structured along five axes of development. Social implications With this model, it is possible to increase the levels of employment and welfare. Originality/value A practical/operational integrated model able to be applied in different contexts will help private and public agents to define and implement strategies of development to enable the growth and success of SMEs and entrepreneurial initiatives in the international markets context.

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本地开发平台（LDP）：业务发展的运营框架

目的本文的目的是提出一种业务发展的概念模型，该模型提供了可操作的方法，以增加在包括国际市场在内的扩大市场中更多微型和小型企业（实际的和新的）的竞争地位。设计/方法/方法本文从确定限制中小企业和企业家精神发展与成功的最常见约束条件出发，开发了一个概念模型。在此阶段之后，该模型是在选定概念的帮助下构建的，这些概念代表了支持的理论框架。关于中小型企业和企业家精神的发现，作者通常会发现一些弱点：由于一些常见的限制因素，市场主要是本地/区域，缺乏增长，合作网络和/或国际运营：能力和资源有限，缺乏足够的购买/销售能力以及难以合作。当存在竞争性报价和/或内源资源时，这些缺点代表了经济浪费。研究局限性/意义该模型将在葡萄牙的一个县中使用，作者希望以此方式在不久的将来进行实证研究。实际含义该模型超越了在竞争性专业领域下注的人员和组织通常具有的有限技能，并假设很少有人可以成为成功的企业家/经理，但是相当多的人都可以在竞争中表现出色。组织/结构-本地开发平台（LDP）-负责确保通过这些代理商网络构建的价值链的竞争力。另外，自民党应提供集体资源，以降低相关代理商的投资和运营需求，提供提高报价和代理商竞争力所必需的增值服务，在买卖中达到关键规模，并扩大/开放新市场。这些资源最多可在五个专业平台中组织，以服务于沿着五个发展轴构建的战略。社会影响使用此模型，可以增加就业和福利水平。独创性/价值能够在不同情况下应用的实用/运营集成模型将帮助私人和公共代理机构制定和实施发展战略，以使中小型企业的成长和成功以及在国际市场背景下的创业计划成为可能。