Entrepreneurship - An Evaluation Research Agenda (CIMR Debates in Public Policy)
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Join us on 18th November for our event 'Entrepreneurship - An Evaluation Research Agenda', part of the CIMR debates in Public Policy series.
This policy debate focuses both on how to evaluate entrepreneurship policies and on how to explain the mixed results obtained by recent evaluations. Empirical evidence is drawn from an international review of some 50 recent high-quality OECD entrepreneurship policy evaluations. Although evaluation practice has improved in the field in the last decade, some important methodological improvements are still needed. Furthermore, a significant proportion of high-quality evaluations find no impact from entrepreneurship policy interventions. This may reflect fundamental weaknesses in the entrepreneurship policy model, but may also be related to differences in the impacts that can be expected from “hard” (finance) as opposed to “soft” (advice) policies, and from “macro” (framework conditions) as opposed to “micro” (direct measure) policies. The audience will be asked to contribute to what a forward-looking entrepreneurship policy evaluation research agenda would look like.
Speaker: Jonathan Potter, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD.
Chair: Dr Fred Guy, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management.
Discussant: Dina Mansour, PhD student at the School of Business, Economics and Informatics, Birkbeck.
Please sign up via the link above by 5pm 17th November. You will be sent the link to join on the morning of the event.
Biographies
Jonathan Potter
Dr Potter is Head of the Entrepreneurship Policy and Analysis Unit in the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He directs a number of OECD activities to provide policy advice to governments internationally. He is responsible for the OECD country reviews of SME and entrepreneurship policies and has led recent reviews in Ireland, Indonesia, Italy, Israel, and Canada. He leads a series of projects on inclusive entrepreneurship policy, i.e. ensuring that all population groups have opportunities for entrepreneurship, including OECD The Missing Entrepreneurs publications (see The Missing Entrepreneurs 2019), a policy briefs series and the Better Entrepreneurship Policy internet guidance tool (www.betterentrepreneurship.eu). He leads further work on entrepreneurial ecosystems, including regional case studies and econometric work. He produced the OECD Framework for the Evaluation of SME and Entrepreneurship Policies and Programmes together with Professor David Storey in 2007, which they are currently updating together. He is British and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and Msc from Imperial College. He is a visiting professor in the Department of Management, Birkbeck.
Dr Fred Guy
Frederick Guy is senior lecturer in the Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and worked at the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge University before joining Birkbeck. His research is in labour economics (interaction of labour market institutions and wages, skills and knowledge, risk-taking) and economic geography (clusters, skills and knowledge market structure). His book The Global Environment of Business is published by Oxford University Press. In 2020 he has published co-authored articles in International Business Policy, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society and Research Policy.
Dina Mansour
Dina is an Egyptian national who is finishing her PhD at the School of Business, Economics and Informatics (BEI) at Birkbeck; University of London. She has a master’s degree from the University of Porto in Portugal. Her thesis examined the entrepreneurial marketing for high-tech entrepreneurs, conducting a comparative study between Egyptian and Portuguese IT startups. Her PhD thesis explores the triad relationship among institutions, high-growth entrepreneurship and institutional intermediaries in a developing country setting (Egypt). Dina is planning a career in public policy advocacy, especially in the entrepreneurship field in the MENA region.
Contact name:
Alice Dowden