SMEs and Entrepreneurship

This OECD high-level international forum for Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) policy makers works to promote entrepreneurship and advance the performance of small businesses by evaluating and diffusing best practice policies in such areas as: business environment, financing, innovation, training, access to markets, e-business, women entrepreneurship. Strengthening international co-operation with OECD non-member economies and international organisations is also given high priority.

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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.

The OECD Kansas City Workshop on High Growth SMEs, Innovation and Intellectual Assets: Strategic Issues and Policies

on 08-May-2008

An OECD international workshop in Kansas City (USA) on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Twenty experts from around the world presented their recommendations on how policymakers can encourage entrepreneurship and the fast growth of innovative small firms.

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Women Entrepreneurs

Realising the Benefits of Globalisation and the Knowledge-based Economy

Women Entrepreneurs in SMEs:Realising the Benefits of Globalisation and the Knowledge-based Economy