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Governing Regional Development Policy: The Use of Performance Indicators

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26-Mar-2009

This report examines both the challenges and the opportunities associated with designing and using indicator systems as a tool for the governance of regional development policy.

The Changing Boundaries of Social Enterprises

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27-Feb-2009

This book contains recommendations for national and local policy makers and presents a set of international best practices for social enterprises.

Regional development and global challenges

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23-Dec-2008

The Territorial Development Policy Committee met to discuss how regional policies can address global challenges. Mark Drabenstott, Director of the RUPRI Center for Regional Competitiveness, University of Missouri, US, and TDPC Chair, tells the regional policy story.  

Entrepreneurship and innovation are engines of economic growth, OECD workshop concludes

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08-May-2008

A three-day international workshop on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized firms (SMEs), organized by OECD with the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, hailed entrepreneurship and the fast growth of innovative small firms as the engines of economic growth.

More Than Just Jobs: Workforce Development in a Skills-Based Economy

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27-Mar-2008

This report provides valuable insights into how labour policies can be expanded to meet economic development and social cohesion goals, while also reconciling national and local concerns...

Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches

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07-Dec-2006

"Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches" analyses the objectives, targeting, instruments and inter-governmental role sharing used by 26 programmes in 14 OECD countries.

OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance: United States

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02-Aug-2006

This site contains a list of key references on the United States. The documentary database includes documents on partnership and local governance that have been published by governments, universities and other organisations.

Designing Local Skills Strategies

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20-Jun-2006

Francesca Froy, Sylvain Giguère, Andrea Hofer

Drawing from a wide array of case studies, this book analyses best-practice local strategies for increasing workforce skills. And it also takes a close look at the opportunities and challenges presented by international migration.

Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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20-Jun-2006

John Potter; Gabriela Miranda

Explores the success of major innovation and entrepreneurship clusters in OECD countries, the challenges they now face in sustaining their positions and the lessons for other places seeking to build successful clusters.