Third Meeting of the OECD Entrepreneurship Indicators Steering Group, Paris, 20 November 2007

Venue: OECD, Château de La Muette, Room E, 2 rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris

 

Please note that, for those who not have attended to the High Growth meeting on the 19th of November, a registration will be required with the OECD Security Section and to obtain ID badges at the Reception Centre, located at the same address 2, rue André Pascal.

 20 November 2007, beginning at 9h30

1.

Introduction and welcoming remarks

9.30 - 10.00

Chair: Anders HOFFMAN, Creative Director of FORA, Denmark

2.

The Entrepreneurship framework

10.00 - 11.00

Presentations:

  • Defining Entrepreneurship - Paper (pdf) from Richard Seymour and Nadim Ahmad
    Nadim AHMAD, OECD Statistical Directorate
  • A General Policy Framework for Addressing and Measuring Entrepreneurship - Presentation (ppt) and Paper (pdf)
    Anders HOFFMAN, Creative Director of FORA, Denmark and Tim Davis, OECD Statistical Directorate

3.

The entrepreneurship measurement manual

11.00 - 11.30

Proposed Outline, Timetable and Process
Short-term plans to produce a Working Document in 2007 - Presentation (ppt)
Tim DAVIS, OECD Statistical Directorate/ Axel Behrens, Eurostat

4.

Entrepreneurship and economic development

11.30 -12.00

Leora F. Klapper, The World Bank - Presentation (ppt)

 

Lunch break

 

5.

Developing information on access to finance

14.00 - 15.00

Status Report on OECD and Eurostat activities on developing data on Access to Finance, draft questionnaires (OECD and Eurostat):

6.

Plans for the next phase of Entrepreneurship Indicator Programme development

15.00 - 15.30

An initial discussion of Entrepreneurship Determinants and how the data will be obtained - Presentation (ppt)
Tim DAVIS, OECD Statistics Directorate

7.

Information items

15.30 - 16.00

  • A  preview presentation of data for several "Entrepreneurship Performance Indicators" - Presentation (ppt)
  • A review of the OECD and Eurostat websites for the Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme.
  • Update on the High-Growth Seminar (if appropriate)
  • Report on the Kauffman Foundation Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data, Kansas City,  Nov. 2-3, 2007
  • The roadmaps to Lisbon, Evidence based policy, Stephan Raes - Presentation (ppt)

8.

Plans for 2008

16.00 - 16.15

Sponsorship and Funding initiatives 

9.

Conclusions

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