The OECD Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme: Workshop on the Measurement of High-Growth Enterprises, 19 November 2007, Paris

1.

Opening remarks

9.45 - 10.00

Joaquim OLIVEIRA MARTINS, OECD Statistical Directorate

2.

Introduction and background information

Nadim AHMAD, OECD Statistical Directorate

10.00 - 10.15

Introduction and background on the OECD/Eurostat initiative on measuring comparable indicators of high-growth.

Background Documents:

• The OECD/Eurostat framework on Business Demography Indicators
• OECD Paper on Measuring High-Growth enterprises and gazelles
• OECD Guidance Notes

3.

  Policy drivers for high-growth indicators

10.15 - 11.15

Presentations:
Anders HOFFMAN, FORA, Denmark

• Update on the WPSMEE Project on High-Growth Enterprises and Innovation - Presentation (ppt)
  Mariarosa LUNATI, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development and Roger WIGGLEWORTH, Ministry of Economic Development, New Zealand
• Growth Firms Project: From Data to Research for Policy - Presentation (ppt)
  Chris PARSLEY, Industry Canada

Coffe break

4.

High-growth sensitivity analysis

11.30 -13.00

Country Presentations:

• Canada - Presentation (ppt)
  Terry EVERS, Statistics Canada
• Italy - Presentation (ppt) and Paper (pdf)
  Catarina VIVIANO, ISTAT
• Sweden - Presentation (ppt) and paper (pdf)
  Anita du RIETZ, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communication
• Spain - Paper (pdf)
  Note: data presented should not be used in official publications 
  Valentin LLORENTE GARCIA, National Statistical Institute
• Denmark - Presentation (ppt)
  Ditte PETERSEN, FORA
• Finland - Presentation (ppt)
  Timo LAUKKANEN, Finland Statistics

13.00-14.30

 Lunch break

14.30-16.30

Country Presentations (continued)

• United States Presentation (ppt)
  Rick CLAYTON, BLS
• General trends and role of high-growth firms in the Polish
  manufacturing sector - Presentation (ppt) and Paper (pdf)
  Jerzy CIESLIK, Leon Kozminski Academy, and Jacek KOTOWSKI, Poland Statistics
• United States: Business Demography development -Presentation (ppt)
  Ron S. JARMIN, Census Bureau
• Empirical Taxonomy of Start-Up Firm - Presentation (ppt) and Paper (pdf)
  Benoit GAILLY, Université catholique de Louvain
• Gazelles in France Presentation (ppt) - Paper (pdf)
  Claude PICART, INSEE
  

Coffee break

5.

OECD/FORA synthesis of country returns

16.45 - 17.00

OECD/FORA synthesis of country returns - Provisional conclusions  - Presentation (ppt) and Paper (pdf)

Ditte PETERSEN, FORA Denmark and Nadim AHMAD, OECD Statistical Directorate

6.

Workshop discussion/roundtable

17.00 - 17.45

Workshop discussion/roundtable on the preferred target definitions and possible variants-short and medium term 

17.45 - 18.00

Conclusions