Action Space for strengthening entrepreneurship in Croatia

Action Space for strengthening entrepreneurship in Croatia

Background | Recommendations | Report | Contact

Background

In 2007, the Trento Centre, together with the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Croatia and the support of World Learning Croatia, have jointly undertaken an active review of entreprneurship in Croatia.

Stimulating, facilitating and enhancing entrepreneurial activities and innovation is critical for Croatia’s continued economic development. Key policy recommendations addressed the need to foster a more pro-active, future-orientated approach to entrepreneurship design and to seek ways to increase policy co-ordination and local tailoring. A key role for public policy is the stimulation of entrepreneurship via the promotion of a more focused approach to transferring science and technology from universities and research centres to the business world.

Recommendations

Recommendations and international learning models have been grouped under the following thematic areas:

• Entrepreneurship policy design and delivery framework
• Entrepreneurship skills and culture
• Modernisation, diversification and internationalisation of existing SMEs
• Technology-based SMEs policies

For context specific recommendations tailored to the needs of reviewed localities look at Recommendations at a Glance

Report

Strengthening entrepreneurship innovation and economic development at local level

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Download here the single chapters:

• Policy environment for promoting entrepreneurship in Croatia
• Policies for modernising and diversifying existing SMEs and supporting their international Competitiveness
• Entrepreneurial technology-based economic development in Croatia
• Institutional arrangements for the design and delivery of entrepreneurship policies
• Policies for developing entrepreneurship skills and culture
• Programmes for entrepreneurship policy design and delivery and the experience of Germany: a learning model
• Spanish good practices in entrepreneurship policies design and delivery

Contact

For more information on the country review Croatia, or if you are interested in working with us on an active review of entrepreneurship in your region, please contact Alessandra.Proto@oecd.org or Jonathan.Potter@oecd.org