OECD Territorial Reviews: Yucatán, Mexico

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30-Oct-2008

OECD Territorial Reviews: Yucatán, Mexico, aims to provide a detailed diagnosis and solutions for improving the competitiveness and governance of the Yucatán state.

Entrepreneurship and Higher Education

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27-Oct-2008

This book examines the role that higher education institutions are currently playing through teaching entrepreneurship and transferring knowledge and innovation to enterprises and discusses how they should develop this role in the future.

OECD Territorial Reviews: Poland

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23-Oct-2008

The Territorial Review of Poland explores the various challenges for Polish regional development policy, and provides recommendations to best implement the policy-mix.

OECD Work on Regional Innovation

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14-Oct-2008

Current work includes an ongoing series of  reviews of innovation in regions from a national and regional perspective (UK, Italy and Mexico) and analysis of innovation indicators using the OECD Regional Database’s innovation indicators dataset.

OECD Territorial Reviews: Portugal

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29-Sep-2008

This review analyses how a paradigm shift in regional policy, building on the knowledge of both public and private stakeholders in regions (ranging from dynamic coastal urban areas to lagging inland areas), could help Portugal fully exploit its potential for sustainable development.

Infrastructure to 2030 (Volume 2)

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03-Jul-2008

Infrastructure systems play a vital role in economic and social development. Increasingly interdependent, they are a means towards ensuring the delivery of goods and services that promote economic prosperity and growth and contribute to quality of life.

Making Local Strategies Work: Building the Evidence Base

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23-Jun-2008

Shows how to create and put into place successful evidence-based local development strategies that will increase economic impacts and enhance the programme-management process.

OECD Rural Policy Reviews: Netherlands

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22-May-2008

Rural areas in the Netherlands are characterised by their proximity to cities. This is not surprising considering that the Netherlands is the most urbanised country in the OECD, having the second highest population density in the OECD.

OECD Public Management Reviews - Ireland: Towards an Integrated Public Service

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28-Apr-2008

Ireland's economic success story is one that many OECD countries would like to emulate. Of the many factors linked to this success, the public sector’s role is key. This report analyses what the sector has accomplished so far, how it can keep renewing itself, and how it can perpetuate its success.

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