Mr Alistair Nolan is Project manager for the OECD Forum on Entrepreneurship, and the OECD's Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) program. He was a co-organizer of the June 200 Bologna conference for Ministers of SMEs. This was the first OECD Ministerial conference of its kind, examining SME development. He co-authored the OECD background papers and policy recommendations on industrial clusters and business networks.

During his forthcoming visit to Australia, Mr Nolan will outline the reasons for policy interest in clusters and enterprise networks, and the effects that such agglomerations and collaborative initiatives can have on firms and the economies they operate in. He will describe the spectrum of clusters and networks strategies adopted across the OECD area.

He will be in Australia as a Smartlink Fellow during July, and also taking part in the Manufacturing Prosperity Conference to be held in Adelaide. 

Home page: www.oecd.org/tds/Forumentr/Entrepreneurship.htm

Other presenters for smartlink seminars in 2001