Measuring Entrepreneurship: A Digest of Indicators, 2009 Edition

Over the past ten years, the OECD has addressed entrepreneurship issues in various analyses and reports. While these studies compiled relevant data to support specific research or policy tasks, no effort was made to establish an ongoing database of entrepreneurship across OECD countries. In 2004, the 2nd OECD Ministerial Conference on SMEs in Istanbul, “Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovative SMEs in a Global Economy”, concluded that … [ Read more ]

The OECD International Regulation Database

Created and maintained by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Regulation Database is a “comprehensive internationally-comparable st of information about the state of regulation and market structures in OECD countries.” The contents of the database are derived primarily from an ad hoc questionnaire that was given to OECD member countries in 1998. The database contains over 1,100 variables for each country … [ Read more ]