This report was prepared by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui (Director) as a part of the “Developing ecosystems and policies for startups” activity of the Programme of Work and Budget of the OECD Committee on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (CSMEE).
The report has been prepared by Jonathan Potter (Head of the Entrepreneurship Policy and Analysis Unit, CFE), Roberto Crotti (Policy Analyst, CFE), and Pablo Shah (Policy Analyst, CFE), with the support of Erik Stam (Professor, Utrecht University). Lucia Cusmano (Acting Head of the SMEs and Entrepreneurship Division, CFE) supervised the production of the report. Nadim Ahmad (Deputy Director, CFE) provided productive insights and comments.
Important inputs were provided by the CSMEE delegates who participated in discussions and offered feedback on the project concept and project outputs at the CSMEE 6th and 7th sessions and by the experts and policy makers who intervened at the CSMEE technical workshops on entrepreneurial ecosystem benchmarking, held in December 2023 and December 2024. Among the participants at the workshops were the following key speakers: Mark Hart (University of Warwick), Cesare Riillo, (STATEC), Arnis Sauka (Stockholm School of Economics), Rolf Sternberg (Leibniz University of Hannover), Roy Thurik (Erasmus School of Economics), Lucien Vijverberg (Ministry of Economy of the Netherlands), Nataliya Wright (Columbia Business School), and Bernd Wurth (University of Glasgow).
The authors are also grateful to Heather Mortimer-Charoy (Assistant, CFE) and Juan Mendez (Assistant, CFE) for technical support, and to Alix Philouze (Communications Co-ordinator) and Jack Waters (Product and Project Co-ordinator, CFE) for preparation of the publication.