The purpose of this Smart Guide is to stimulate policy learning and provide guidance in designing and implementing programmes that accelerate the creation of start-ups, spin-offs and scale-ups through a cluster approach. The focus of this Smart Guide is on innovative entrepreneurship as a key...

The European Union currently faces a need to invest in modernising its industry across all value chains in order to maintain its competitive position and economic relevance worldwide. Particularly since the start of the global financial crisis, the pace of economic recovery in the European Union...

The paper first identifies the stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of China's innovation policy and compares them with different government systems in selected Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. In order to disclose the relative strength...

This report presents the results of a survey collected in 2009 amongst African exporters of agricultural commodities to the EU. Exporters interviewed come from five African countries: Uganda, South Africa, Morocco and Kenya and Ivory Coast. The survey covers a total of 95 interviews, 20 from...

This report presents the main results obtained from a survey on the impacts of non-tariff measures (NTMs) existing in trade flows from African agricultural and food trade to the EU. The report begins with a literature review of current methods used to detect the presence of, and tools to...

The paper first identifies the stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of China’s innovation policy and compares them with different government systems in selected Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. In order to disclose the relative strength...