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The exchange of experience between OECD member and non-member countries will focus on the following areas:
Entrepreneurship
Productive entrepreneurship is crucial to local economic growth, employment creation and innovation. Entrepreneurial activity drives efficient resource use and accelerates the process of generating, diffusing and applying innovative ideas and concepts.
Objectives: to examine and assess best practices in the design, implementation and evaluation of a range of policy instruments typically employed by sub-national authorities to increase rates of new business formation and facilitate enterprise development and to consider the strategic merits and demerits of area-based development strategies oriented around entrepreneurship promotion as a means of job creation and local development.
Areas for discussion: business incubation; clusters and enterprise networks; target-group entrepreneurship (women, youth, minorities); self-employment; start-up financing; micro-credit; micro-venture capital; financing local development.
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Non-profit sector
The non-profit sector is a major stakeholder in economic and social life in most OECD Member and non-member countries. Thanks to its unique capacity to pursue both economic and social missions and to build on unemployed human and physical resources, it contributes to creating more sustainable and equitable economies at national and sub-national level.
Objectives: to analyse how to build the best general framework to maximise the non–profit sector contribution to local development; to disseminate the most relevant social innovation carried out and implemented throughout the non-profit sector; to analyse and evaluate the role of the non-profit sector in different areas (health care, education, local services etc.) and to provide guidance to accession countries wishing to consolidate their non-profit sector.
Areas for discussion: third sector; non-profit; corporate social responsibility; active citizenship; socially responsible investments; integration of ethnic minorities; social capital; asset-building and micro-credit for the socially excluded.
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Local governance
Decentralisation can best be viewed as a tool to improve local governance, as it brings decision-making closer to where problems and individuals are. Decentralisation raises a number of challenges, however, both in terms of the degree of flexibility in policy management that it can yield in practice and the capacity to guarantee public accountability. Local and regional governments have an important role to play in the response to globalisation. They can develop policies to support city and regional competitiveness in an increasingly dynamic and open economy. To this end, local partnerships are established across levels and between the public, private and civil-society sectors. New forms of governance are being experimented.
Objective: to analyse the contribution of local partnerships to better governance and more effective employment programmes and development strategies, and to assess the impact of increased international economic integration on local economies and the most appropriate policy responses for local authorities.
Areas for discussion: partnerships; decentralisation; accountability; capacity building; devolution and globalisation; inward investments and local development; local economic impact of new information and communication technologies; immigration and local economic development; financing local development; smart cities and sustainable development.
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