This report was prepared by the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. It forms part of the programme of work of the OECD Committee on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (CSMEE) on Operational Tools in Support of Better SME and Entrepreneurship Policies.
The project was led by Jonathan Potter, Head of the Entrepreneurship Policy and Analysis Unit, CFE, OECD, under the overall supervision of Céline Kauffmann, Head of the Entrepreneurship, SME and Tourism Division, CFE, OECD. The report was prepared by a team involving Jonathan Potter (OECD/CFE), David Storey (University of Sussex, UK), Ondřej Dvouletý (Prague University of Economics and Business) and Pablo Shah (OECD/CFE).
The OECD Committee on SMEs and Entrepreneurship and its predecessor the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE) have been active in steering the development of this report and reviewing the documents. A session of the OECD Ministerial Conference on SMEs and Entrepreneurship in Mexico City in 2018 helped frame the issues. The topic was further defined in the preparation of the programmes of work of the WPSMEE and CSMEE in 2019-20 and 2021-2022. An initial draft of Part I and Part II of the Framework was submitted for comment to the WPSMEE in April 2020 and an initial draft of Part III was discussed at a meeting of the WPSMEE in November 2020. Comments and inputs were taken into account in a revised version of the report, which was approved by the CSMEE in December 2022.