In this article, firstly, we review panoramically the recent evolution and the current situation of the European policy to promote entrepreneurship and support SMEs. Then, applying cluster analysis techniques to a group of proxy variables, several homogeneous groups of countries are identified...

In this paper, we adopt the viewpoint that not only the size of sectoral linkages is relevant but also the economic distance between sectors. To measure distance, we define the average propagation length as the average number of steps it takes an exogenous change in one sector to affect the...