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Start-up Latin America : Promoting Innovation in the Region / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- Series:
- Development Centre Studies, 19900295.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New business enterprises--Latin America.
- New business enterprises.
- Entrepreneurship--Latin America.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This report reviews the policy mix to support knowledge-based start-ups in six countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. It discusses role of public policies in supporting the creation of start-ups, it presents an overview of the rationale and scope of state intervention and it summarises the experience of OECD countries, focusing on Australia, Finland and Israel. The report provides a comparative assessment of the experience of the six Latin American countries. Following the literature and the experience of countries it develops a taxonomy of instruments targeted to promote entrepreneurship and it compares the policy mix available in the different countries in Latin America. It also identifies recommendations to improve the policy framework for start-up promotion in Latin America. Country notes are available for each of the six studied countries. The report has been elaborated in the framework of the Development Centre's policy dialogue on innovation policies in Latin America.
- Contents:
- Promoting start-ups in Peru
- Latin America's experience in promoting start-ups
- Promoting start-ups in Mexico
- Assessment and recommendations
- Executive summary
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- The experience of OECD countries in fostering start-ups
- What can public policies do to promote start-ups?
- Introduction
- Editorial
- Foreword and acknowledgements
- Promoting start-ups in Argentina
- Promoting start-ups in Colombia
- Promoting start-ups in Chile
- Promoting start-ups in Brazil.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 92-64-20230-7
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