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from 26-Mar-2009 to 27-Mar-2009
A two day Round Table was held under the auspices of the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE) in Turin, Italy on 26 and 27 March 2009 at the invitation of the Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. The round table aimed to promote a tri-partite dialogue among governments, SMEs and financial institutions, on possible measures to help SMEs and entrepreneurs through the crisis and suggest recommendations. It will be a basis for the WPSMEE's input into the OECD Strategic Response to the Financial and Economic Crisis.
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on 08-May-2008
The Working Party on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE) of the OECD, in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the U.S. Department of Commerce organised an international workshop in Kansas City on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It took place on May 8, at the Kauffman Foundation headquarters in Kansas City. The workshop was an important milestone in an OECD study on "High Growth SMEs, Innovation, Intellectual Assets and Value Creation"
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from 31-May-2007 to 01-Jun-2007
The OECD Global Conference on Enhancing the Role of SMEs in Global Value Chains, held in Tokyo on 31 May-1 June 2007 brought together experts from governments, international organisations, academia, business and civil society to examine the conclusions of the study, review best practice policies and programmes and draft the Tokyo Action Statement – including policy recommendations -- for further work in this area.
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from 27-Mar-2006 to 30-Mar-2006
Access to finance is one of the biggest obstacles to the creation, growth and development of small businesses, according to OECD analysis. How governments can help entrepreneurs get the funds to develop their business was the focus of this high-level international conference organised jointly by the OECD and Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
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from 16-Sep-2003 to 18-Sep-2003
The need for better quantitative and qualitative information relating to SMEs is one of the cross-cutting issues of the Bologna Process. This Workshop, organised by the Statistics Directorate, will aim at deriving concrete statistical recommendations for endorsement at the Istanbul Ministerial.
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from 27-Nov-2002 to 28-Nov-2002
OECD officials and representatives of South American governments and international organisations will hold a two-day working-group session in Argentina to discuss ways of promoting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the region.
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from 19-Oct-2001 to 30-Nov-2001
The OECD will hold a workshop on collecting and analysing firm-level statistics in November 2001. Experts will discuss approaches to measuring entrepreneurship, determining the entry and exit of firms, assessing levels of women's entrepreneurship, and measuring productivity at firm level.
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from 14-Jun-2001 to 15-Jun-2001
The Italian Ministry of Industry and the OECD organised a High-level Conference of Ministers responsible for SMEs and Industry Ministers on the theme "Enhancing the Competitiveness of SMEs in the Global Economy - Strategies and Policies".
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from 29-Nov-2000 to 30-Nov-2000
The conference, held at the Conference Centre Pierre Mendès in Paris, France, follows on from an April 1997 OECD conference on the role of women entrepreneurs in innovation and job creation and the first OECD conference at Ministerial level on SMEs in June 2000 in Italy.
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