The OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development acts as a catalyst, increasing synergies between different areas of expertise, and raising the profile of OECD work on entrepreneurship.  It is charged with disseminating best practices on the design, implementation and evaluation of initiatives to promote entrepreneurship, SME growth and local economic and employment development.

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More flexibility in labour market policy management would boost growth, says OECD

21-Apr-2008

OECD governments could boost economic growth and help create jobs if local agencies and authorities had more power and autonomy to adjust employment and training programmes to meet local needs, concluded OECD employment ministers.

Entrepreneurship and innovation are engines of economic growth, OECD workshop concludes

13-May-2008

A three-day international workshop on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized firms (SMEs), organized by OECD with the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, hailed entrepreneurship and the fast growth of innovative small firms as the engines of economic growth.

Tourism in OECD Countries 2008: Trends and Policies

20-Feb-2008

The first edition of a biennial publication which analyses best practice in OECD and selected non-member economies. It surveys a number of initiatives taken by governments and businesses in the tourism field.

The Fourth Forum Meeting ‘Partnerships for Skills and Competitiveness’, Vienna, Austria

from 18-Feb-2008 to 19-Feb-2008

This meeting sought to identify the best ways for partnerships to contribute to the design and implementation of skills development strategies which can boost competitiveness and make the economy more inclusive. More than 130 partnership practitioners, managers, national co-ordinators of partnership networks, and policy makers from OECD Member and non-member countries joined fruitful debates.

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