what is a high growth enterprise 
a high growth enterprise is one that is successfully scaling up the organisation for economic cooperation and development oecd defines it as having an average annualized growth greater than 20 a year over three years and with 10 or more employees at the beginning of the observation period the european union sets the growth threshold at 10 in its definition 3 the oecd also refers to such businesses as scalers the bottom linescalability refers to a business or other entity s capacity to grow to meet increased demand a business that can scale up successfully should benefit from economies of scale where production costs are spread across more units resulting in higher profit margins 