Linkages between small and large firms (Canada)

Strategic alliances between small and large firms seem to become more and more important for firms in order to innovate and develop. This project sets out to explore the meaning of strategic alliances between firms and provide ICE members with a questionnaire, which will be used to conduct case studies throughout the ICE countries.

Contact person: Chris Parsley, Chris.Parsley@ic.gc.ca    

Mapping Firm Growth (Denmark) 

There is only little understanding of when firms actually grow and how. There a two main aspects of this project. One aspect is to define 8-10 growth patterns and then analyse how many firms follow these different patterns and if the firms following the different patterns have some distinguished characteristics. The second aspect is to create some indicators that make it possible to compare growth patterns across countries - especially to see the differences between the U.S., Canada and Europe. Initially, we will benchmark the ICE countries. In the longer run, the OECD could get involved in the project to ensure that the indicators will be unfold in the rest of the OECD countries. 

Contact person: Glenda Napier, gna@ebst.dk  

Evaluating Public Growth Programs: A Pathway to Growth in ICE Countries? (Denmark)

In order to accelerate growth within new and small firms, a number of countries have initiated public funded acceleration programs that facilitate action-oriented support and coaching to selected companies. With the aim to provide policy recommendations regarding the spread of growth programmes in ICE countries, FORA will initiate 1) an international evaluation of existing growth programmes and 2) a statistical analysis of increase in turnover in participating companies compared to a comparable control group in order to evaluate the impact of acceleration programs on participating companies.

Contact person: Thomas Ebdrup, te@ebst.dk 

Quality Manual 

Effective decisions and solid policy making require clear, comprehensive and reliable data and information. For this reason, more and more countries have constructed large national indicator systems to measure their current stage and progress in various areas. The overall validity of these efforts depends among other things on the quality of each of the individual indicators.

Project document: Quality Manual - Version I (2005)

Project document: Quality Manual - Version II (2006)

Project document: Quality Manual - Version III (2007)