The International Consortium on Entrepreneurship (ICE) is a consortium of leading entrepreneurship countries working to improve the analytical foundation for entrepreneurship policies. The consortium also initiates comparative policy analyses in order to improve our understanding of the functioning of entrepreneurship policies.

 

Measuring Entrepreneurship

The OECD, Eurostat and the World Bank are presenting a joint publication ”Measuring Entrepreneurship”. This is the result of the past three years’ intensive work with harmonising entrepreneurship definitions and data across the OECD countries. The International Consortium on Entrepreneurship (ICE) has contributed immensely to the work. See the report here.

 

New ICE meeting in Copenhagen

Policy decision makers from the world's leading entrepreneurship nations will meet May 27 to discuss policy experience in the area of entrepreneurship. FORA will organise the ICE (International Consortium for Entrepreneurship) meeting. David Audretsch will among other things present his latest work on small firm innovation and knowledge filters. Read more here. 

 

ICE meets again in Copenhagen

The next ICE meeting is taking place on 27 May in Copenhagen back-to-back with the OECD Innovation Conference. The agenda is now available.

Canada releases new data on Growth Firms

The profile summarizes the research on growth firms completed by Industry Canada’s Small Business Policy Branch and highlights their contribution to job creation, by firm size, region and industry and discusses the factors for successful growth and survival. Read the profile here.