High Growth SMEs, Innovation and Intellectual Assets: Strategic Issues and Policies

Measuring "Access to Capital" in the EIP Framework

Entrepreneurship Indicators Workshop Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Entrepreneurship Indicators Program attempts to provide a framework that presents a wide range of indicators that can be used together, and not in isolation, by policy makers or academics to look at specific aspects of entrepreneurship.  One of the most important pieces of this framework are statistics around "Access to Capital."  This workshop is meant to have have an open, focused discussion of the appropriate indicators for the "Access to Capital" portion of the EIP framework, as well as the availability and timeliness of indicators across countries.  

In September 2006, the OECD launched an Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP) to collect internationally-comparable statistics on entrepreneurship and its determinants. The aim of the project was to develop a list of indicators, standard definitions and concepts, such that the long-term delivery of statistics in this area could be guaranteed. In 2007, a formal partnership was agreed between the OECD and Eurostat to take forward the EIP. The challenge faced by the EIP is to provide data that not only allows policy-makers and academics to understand better the rate and types of entrepreneurial activity, but also the outcomes and impact of entrepreneurship, especially in terms of the creation of wealth, employment and productivity gains.     

Learn more about the OECD's Entrepreneurship Indicators Program or download their November 2008 digest of entrepreneurship indicators.