This publication was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, as part of the programme of work of the Regional Development Policy Committee (RDPC).
This publication was co-ordinated by Delphine Clavreul, policy analyst, under the supervision of Dorothee Allain-Dupré, Head of the Regional Development and Multi-level Governance Division of CFE. Delphine Clavreul drafted Chapters 1, 4 and 5, and edited the report. Ana Moreno Monroy drafted Chapter 2, under the supervision of Enrique Garcilazo. Federica Daniele drafted Chapter 3 under the supervision of Rüdiger Ahrend and Alexander Lembcke. Frédéric Weill (Futuribles) provided important written contributions to Chapter 4. Delphine Clavreul and Mauricio Sepúlveda Vargas co‑ordinated the development of the country pages (available online) complementing the report, with the support of Tainá Souza Pacheco. Eric Gonnard and Claire Hoffmann provided valuable statistical support, while Mauricio Sepúlveda Vargas helped with the oecdplot R package.
This report benefitted from insightful comments and inputs from colleagues in CFE: Nadim Ahmad, David Burgalassi, Betty-Ann Bryce, Claire Charbit, Isabelle Chatry, Amal Chevreau, Marcos Diaz Ramirez, Michael Flood, Peter Haxton, Soo-Jin Kim, Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp, Michelle Marshalian, Tadashi Matsumoto, Maria Varinia Michalun, Atte Oksanen, Cem Özguzel, Andrew Paterson, Anna Rubin, Raffaele Trapasso, Geoff Upton, Miquel Vidal Bover, Stephan Visser, Alison Weingarden, Courtenay Wheeler, Yingyin Wu and Isidora Zapata. Trish Lavery and Dexter Docherty of the OECD Strategic Foresight Unit also provided useful feedback on Chapter 4. The OECD Secretariat thanks David Castells Quintana (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Philip McCann (Alliance Manchester Business School) and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (European Commission) for their valuable comments. Pilar Philip prepared the report for production.
The OECD Secretariat thanks the delegates to the RDPC for their valuable comments on earlier versions of the report and for providing inputs to the country pages. Thanks are also due to those RDPC delegates who participated in the foresight workshops organised in November 2022 and March 2023 as part of the preparation of the report. The report was approved by the RDPC through written procedure on 29 June 2023 (CFE/RDPC(2023)7-REV1).