The ECER – Banque Populaire study aims at providing a tool for prospecting and forecasting for local business support structures. By identifying the “best practices” in 37 cities located in 18 different countries, it focuses on businessmen's needs, and makes suggestions for improvement of business support services.
Moreover, the detailed analysis of the results makes it possible to understand each local situation better and to identify the possible means to improve services and to adapt the recommendations for each territory.
Finally, the ECER – Banque Populaire study has the ambition to offer innovative keys to cross read quantitative and qualitative data in order to fully understand the issues at stake for business creation in Europe.
Thus, the goal of this ranking is to be part of a dynamic process by providing keys for success for those territories involved in encouraging entrepreneurship.
The ECER – Banque Populaire study aims at helping local authorities to implement their public policies. Since the study has already acquired a basis of expertise and knowledge of the different territories over the past three editions, the ECER – Banque Populaire study can evaluate the longer term effectiveness of accompaniment services through an analysis of the change in entrepreneurs' expectations and satisfaction rates.
More largely, the study intends to participate in the strategic objectives of the European Union: “to make the European Union an economy based on the most competitive and most dynamic know how in the world, capable of durable economic growth, accompanied by both quantitative and qualitative improvement of employment rates coupled with improved social policies”.
See The 2010 Results
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