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26-Apr-2010
As industrialised countries face economic uncertainty and high unemployment, a protectionist instinct may arise to limit international migration, based on the view that the number of jobs are fixed and should therefore go to natives rather than foreign migrants. Such action can be misguided, not only because migrants provide a solution to future demographic pressures, but because migrants often participate in entrepreneurial activities. A new report reviews the factors influencing entrepreneurship among immigrants and how different migration policies may help or hinder.
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Governments should do more to help SMEs expand abroad
10-Nov-2006
Participants at a two-day OECD-APEC conference in Athens agreed that governments should play a more active role in helping small and medium-sized firms trying to expand abroad and provide training in key areas such as marketing and intellectual property.
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on 08-May-2008
The Working Party on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE) of the OECD, in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the U.S. Department of Commerce organised an international workshop in Kansas City on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It took place on May 8, at the Kauffman Foundation headquarters in Kansas City. The workshop was an important milestone in an OECD study on "High Growth SMEs, Innovation, Intellectual Assets and Value Creation"
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