This publication was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, as part of the programme of work of the Local Employment and Economic Development (LEED) Programme.
This publication was co-ordinated and managed by Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp, under the supervision of Karen Maguire, Head of Division and Nadim Ahmad (Deputy Director, CFE). Lead authors for individual chapters were Antonela Miho (Chapter 1), Laurenz Baertsch and Antonela Miho (Chapter 2), and Agustin Basauri (Chapter 3). Patricia Peñalosa and Ana Krstanovic made effective contributions to the different chapters. Tahsin Mehdi (Statistics Canada) kindly provided data on Canada.
This report benefited from valuable comments and inputs from Wessel Vermeulen, Carlo Menon, Cem Ozguzel, Amal Chevreau, Lea Samek, Stijn Broecke, Marguerita Lane, Glenda Quintini, and Luis Aranda.
The OECD would like to thank the delegates to the OECD LEED Directing Committee, including contributions from the report steering group, for their valuable input. Eloisa Cozar Navarrete and Katrina Baker prepared the manuscript for publication.