CFE Insight

CFE Insight is a newsletter published by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE).

Topics covered relate to entrepreneurship, SMEs, local employment and local economic development, and tourism. There are also listings of forthcoming events and a selection of key CFE publications.

Click on a volume below to download a copy (pdf):

CFE INSIGHT vol.4 (July 2008)

• Social innovation and the OECD.
  Andy Westwood, Special Advisor to the UK Secretary of State for Innovation
• Social innovation: contributing to more effective governance.
  Margie Mendell, Concordia University, Canada
• Social innovation: a key economic factor.
  Antonella Noya, Senior Policy Analyst, OECD

CFE INSIGHT vol.3 (June 2008)

• SMEs in the forefront of globalisation.
• Tourism in OECD countries: new trends and policies.
• Entrepreneurship in universities: a crucial challenge.
• “More than jobs, new skills.”
• Venice: a further step towards making labour market policies more effective.

• On tour in China with the OECD LEED Programme.
• The importance of entrepreneurship as a tool for job creation.
• Development agencies and investment strategies.
• The partnership approach developed by the OECD is improving relations between social partners at the local level.
• Building competitive skills: adapting national policies to the new global context.
• The LEED Trento Centre: an interesting new experience.
  Interview with President Dellaï, President of the Autonomous Province of Trento
• The LEED Trento Centre: building capacity in Central and Eastern Europe.
  Interview with Gianluca Salvatori, Minister for Innovation,Trento
• Why the Trento Cooperative Movement works at both the local and international
  levels.
  Interview with Diego Schelfi, President of the Trento Cooperative Movement
• Evaluation: a key tool for local development

CFE INSIGHT vol.1 (November 2006)

• Better financing for more entrepreneurship and greater SME growth.
• Entrepreneurship - a key source of innovation in tourism.
• Reconciling economic and social goals.
• Hunter Valley: new prospects for social innovation.
• Spotlight on two concrete examples:
  • The Active Citizenship Network.
  • The social role of virtual communities.

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