The OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP) develops policy-relevant and internationally-comparable indicators, based on an analytical model and measurement infrastructure that allow gathering comparable data. Launched in 2006, the Programme has initially produced methodological tools to structure the development and collection of indicators of entrepreneurship: the "Eurostat-OECD Manual on Business Demography Statistics (2007)", and the Working Papers "Defining Entrepreneurial Activity: Definitions Supporting Frameworks for Data Collection (2008)" and "A Framework for Addressing and Measuring Entrepreneurship (2008)". Since 2011, the yearly publication Entrepreneurship at a Glance presents the actual collection of core indicators of entrepreneurial performance, as well as a selection of indicators of entrepreneurial determinants. |
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BackgroundA number of developments conspired to provide impetus for the EIP. An OECD Ministerial Meeting in Istanbul in 2004 called for countries to develop more robust statistics on SMEs and entrepreneurship to improve policy development and monitoring. The Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities was established within the OECD and emphasised users' needs for international entrepreneurship data. Denmark organised an International Consortium for Dynamic Entrepreneurship Benchmarking (ICE) that urged the OECD to play a role in developing better entrepreneurship data and provided support. Finally, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of the United States also provided a generous financial contribution to permit the OECD to explore the field of entrepreneurship measurement. |
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