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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High Level Tourism Committee Meeting, Riva del Garda (Italy)

from 08-Oct-2008 to 10-Oct-2008

"The Tourism Economy and Globalisation: an Engine for Innovation, Growth and Employment"

Globalisation is strengthening global competition through new destinations and new consumers/tourists, and driving structural change in the tourism industry. Policy makers, industry leaders and tourism experts will come together to discuss how the tourism economy must improve its competitiveness, and how tourism actors must use their resources more efficiently & more innovatively to develop and bring to the market products that are competitive in the world market.

Conference on "Partnerships for Social Inclusion", Melbourne, Australia

from 15-Oct-2008 to 16-Oct-2008

Increasing social inclusion requires a joined-up approach that cuts across policy departments. The public sector should re-think the way it operates, moving from a traditional hierarchical model to one characterised by multi-sectoral partnerships and flexibility in policy delivery. These topics will be discussed at this conference co-organised by the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne, the Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development and the OECD LEED Programme.

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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