in particular small and mediumsized enterprises smes which lag in productivity relative to larger firms and governments lag in their adoption and use for example while almost of enterprises in the oecd had a broadband connection in of enterprises with or more employees used cloud computing compared to less than a quarter of smes this is a concern because evidence suggests that a slowdown in the diffusion of technologies and knowledge from frontier to lagging firms may be an important source of the current aggregate productivity slowdown