LEED Events on Entrepreneurship 2004

Conference on Regional and Entrepreneurial Development: New Challenges for Latin America, Sinaloa, Mexico, spring 2004 (postponed)
This conference aims at evaluating lessons learned from the OECD LEED Entrepreneurship Review of the State of Sinaloa, in the light of their applicability to other Mexican states and Latin American countries. This event is organised by the OECD LEED Programme in partnership with the government of the State of Sinaloa, the Sinaloa Development Council and the financial support of the Presidency of Mexico. For more information, please contact Alistair.Nolan@oecd.org. To follow up

Partnerships, Clusters of Enterprises and Cross-border Co-operation in the Hrvatska Kostajnica Region, Croatia, 6 April 2004
This seminar, which will be hosted by the town of Hrvatska Kostajnica, Croatia, is organised within the LEED Trento Centre programme of work, in co-operation with UMIS-SMEA (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Association), Croatia, and the Investment Compact. For more information, please contact Anca.Dumitrescu@oecd.og or Ekaterina.Travkina@oecd.org

Conferences on Clusters, Entrepreneurship and Local Development in Romania: two back-to-back events in Timisoara and Bucharest, Romania, May 2004
These two conferences are organised within the framework of the LEED Trento Centre in co-operation with the City of Timisoara, the Romanian SME Agency, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Investment Compact, in view of Romanian participation in the second OECD Ministerial Conference on SMEs, scheduled for 3-5 June in Istanbul
For further information, please contact Anca.Dumitrescu@oecd.og or Ekaterina.Travkina@oecd.org

The Second OECD Ministerial Conference on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Istanbul, Turkey, 3-5 June 2004
In the framework of the Bologna Process, the Working Party on SMEs & Entrepreneurship, in close co-operation with the LEED Programme and other OECD bodies, is developing 4 themes and 2 cross-cutting issues, which will constitute the core agenda for the Second OECD Ministerial Conference on SMEs in Istanbul. For more information, please contact Alistair.Nolan@oecd.org