When I asked two U.S. Senators from different parties earlier this year how they managed to work together on startup legislation during an election year, both talked of “credible, robust data” as their starting point. Last week I participated in the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) 3rd Annual Global Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Conference at George Washington University to see what was emerging outside the United States.
This annual event has gained increasing importance as policymakers outside the U.S. become more interested in the need to foster young and growing businesses rather than big-firm capitalism. As panelist Salvatore Zecchini, chairman of the OECD Working Party on SME and Entrepreneurship, pointed out in his presentation at the conference, since 2008 governments have shifted their focus to new firm creation and SMEs, marking a fundamental shift from a “managed-type of economy” to an “entrepreneurial economy.”
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