Curriculum vitae

  1. Personal
  2. Education
  3. Language skills
  4. Membership of professional bodies
  5. Other skills
  6. Present position
  7. Key qualifications
  8. Specific country experience
  9. Professional experience record
  10. Selection of publications

Personal

Family name Van der Horst
First names Robert Edward
Date of Birth 2 April 1947
Nationality Dutch
Civil status Married

Education

Institution Erasmus University Rotterdam
Date: from: 9/1970 to: 5/1978 Regional Economics.
Major subjects: Economic geography, Theoretical regional economy, Applied regional economic research, Mathematics, Macro-economic theory.
Other subjects: Urban economics, Statistics, Environmental economics
Degree obtained: Master’s degree

Language skills

(Mark 1 to 5 for competence)

Language Reading Speaking Writing
English 5 4 4
German 4 3 3
French 4 3 3
Dutch 5 5 5

Membership of professional bodies

  • ICSB (International Council for Small Business): Past-President, Washington;
  • ECSB (European Council for Small Business), Turku (Finland);
  • Past member of the Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development (Environment Directorate General of the European Commission), Brussels.
  • Wilford L. White Fellow of the International Council for Small Business ICSB
  • Honorary Fellow of the European Network for Social and Economic Research ENSR

Other skills

Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Present position

Self-employed at Robvanderhorst.eu
Namibiëstraat 13
2622LD Delft
The Netherlands
Mobile: +31 6 54 284585
Email: info [at] robvanderhorst.eu
Website: www.robvanderhorst.eu
Years within the firm: Since August 2013

Key qualifications

  • More than 40 years of experience in conducting applied economic research
  • 10 years of experience in managing an SME research unit
  • More than 25 years of experience with international SME research and consultancy for SME policy makers in almost all EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Russian Federation, China, Mediterranean countries, the Caribbean, South Africa, Dubai and USA
  • Expert in the field of EU and national policies, especially with respect to entrepreneurship and SMEs
  • From 1992 to 2004 responsible for the overall management and co-ordination of the Annual Reports of the Observatory of European SMEs (19 countries, since 2003: 32 countries, total turnover €13 million)
  • From 1992 until March 2013 responsible for establishing, managing and extending the European Network for Social and Economic Research ENSR, bringing together research organisations in 32 countries.
  • From 2008 to 2012 project director of the Framework Contract for SME Studies with DG Enterprise of the European Commission (€8 million turnover).
  • From 1976 to 1982 involved in a great variety of economic studies for Dutch municipalities and provinces.

Specific country experience

Country Date
Australia June 2006, September 2008
Austria November 1996, February 2002
Brazil October 2007
Bulgaria March-April 1992, November-December 1993, June 1995
Canada May 1992, June 1992, September 2007, July 2008, June 2009
Caribbean May 2016-April 2017, missions to St. Maarten, British Virgin Islands, Curacao, Bonaire, Aruba, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Barth, Anguilla, Turks and Caicos Islands.
Colombia February 1992
Croatia October 2008, October 2012
Czech Republic November 1996
Denmark November 2004, August 2012
Dubai October 2002, February 2003, May 2003, June 2003, September-October 2003, March 2004, April 2008
Egypt April 2007, November 2007
Finland June 2007
Greece December 1992, March 1997
Hungary May 1991, September-October 1991
Israel September 2003, April 2013
Italy November 2005
Jamaica October 1998
Jordan May 2016, February 2017
Japan November 2010, January 2011
Lebanon June-July 2015, January 2016
Mozambique June 1982
Norway May 1995, August 2003, September 2004
Poland May 1983, November 2003
Portugal June 1992, November 1992, October 1993, September 1999, October 2003
Puerto Rico and Barbados February 2006
Romania September 1997, May 2005
Russian Federation June 1994, March 2001, June 2002, November 2010, February 2011
Slovak Republic April 1996, June 1997
Slovenia January 2013
South Africa July/August 1995, September-October 1995, February 1996, July and October-November 1997, April, June and December 1998, May and July 2000, June 2004
Spain September 1990, June 1992, June 1998, November 2002, November 2004
Sweden February 2003, June 2011
Switzerland November 2005
Taiwan October 2006
Thailand November 2007
Turkey September 1996, November 2002
USA May 1998, February 1999, January 2005, April and June 2005, March 2006, January and June 2007, June 2010
Zimbabwe May/June 1982

Professional experience record

August 2013 – present

Independent SME policy professional (self-employed)
Robvanderhorst.eu
Namibiëstraat 13
2622LD Delft
The Netherlands

During this period completed the following project activities:

  • Interim Evaluation of the participation of SMEs in the Cooperation Programme and the Research for the benefit of SMEs schemes under the Capacities Programme of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological development and Demonstration activities 2007-2013 (EC, DG for Research and Innovation), 2014.
  • Enterprise formalization; a search for case studies (ILO), 2014-2015.
  • A feasibility study for an SME Observatory in Lebanon (World Bank), 2015-2016.
  • Setting up an SME Observatory in Jordan (EU Programme), 2016-2017.
  • SME policy development in the Overseas Countries and Territories in the Caribbean Region. EU COSME programme, for Ecorys (Rotterdam), May 2016-July 2018:
    • Applying the SME Policy Index for 12 Overseas Countries and Territories, 2016.
    • Advising the Government of Sint Maarten on an SME policy, April 2017.
    • Advising the Government of Aruba on an SME policy, April 2017
    • Advising the Government of Anguilla on an SME policy, June 2017
    • Advising the Government of Bonaire on an SME policy, August 2017
    • Developing an Entrepreneurship Policy for Sint Eustatius, 4 June 2017.
    • Developing an SME policy for the Government of Sint Maarten, September 2017.
    • Advising the Government of the Cayman Islands on an SME policy, June 2018.

June 1986 – August 2013: Employer Panteia/EIM

Employer Panteia/EIM (formerly EIM Business & Policy Research)
5, Rue Archimède, Box 4, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 2 5100884
Main office of Panteia/EIM:
P.O. Box 7001, 2701 AA Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 79 3430200

1999 – 2013: Director Panteia/EIM Brussels

Director Panteia/EIM Brussels
Executive Director of the European Network for Social and Economic Research ENSR

1990 – 1999: Manager International Department

Main subjects:

  • Small business development in developing countries
  • Internationalisation of SMEs
  • Structure and development of SMEs in the EU
  • Private enterprise development in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Institution building in Central and Eastern Europe
  • SME and entrepreneurship policy in Europe, Central and Eastern Europe and South Africa
  • Project organisation and management

During this period completed the following project activities:

Netherlands

  • Estimation of the export potential of Dutch SMEs
  • Annual reports on the State of Small Business in The Netherlands
  • SME policy in The Netherlands (for the Swedish government)
  • The utilisation of Community Structural Funds by SMEs in The Netherlands (commissioned by the European Commission in 1992)
  • Assessment of the “Business Related Services” sector, project commissioned by DG V of the European Commission to Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
  • Evaluation of IntEnt; a programme financed by the Dutch government supporting the start-up of enterprises in Ghana and Surinam by people from ethnic minorities
  • Organisation of the 29th International Small Business Congress ISBC, october 2002 Amsterdam (assessment of abstracts and papers)

Europe

  • Extension and maintenance of the ENSR (European Network for Social and Economic Research), co-ordinated by EIM; regular missions to all Member States of the European Economic Area (EU-15 together with Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) and Switzerland.
  • International comparative research into the international strategic orientation of SMEs in manufacturing industry (INTERSTRATOS);
  • International comparison of SME-policy of the governments in the 12 Member States of the EC;
  • Organisation of the European Small Business Seminar 1992;
  • International comparison of government policy on information and advice;
  • Consultant to the OECD (Paris) in setting up an SME-databank and an SME research programme;
  • International comparison of statistics on the demography of firms (initiated by ANCE, Paris);
  • An international comparative study in eight European countries on competitiveness, autonomy and business relationships;
  • SME policy in the 12 EC Member States compared with the SME policy of the EC (for the Department of Trade and Industry, United Kingdom);
  • Europe’s 500: survey and analysis of 500 fast growing firms in Europe (commissioned by DG III, DG V and DG XXIII of the EC);
  • Consultant to UNIDO (Vienna) to develop the methodology for an ‘SME Observatory’ for developing countries;
  • Consultant to the OECD (Paris) on Regulatory Reform and SMEs;
  • Feasibility study European Observatory on Industrial Change (EC DG V);
  • Independent expert to the OECD and the Italian government concerning the preparation of the Ministerial SME Conference, Bologna 2000;
  • Preparation of the International Small Business Congress 2002 in Amsterdam (a.o. with the Conference Introduction Paper “Small Business, Big Markets, One World”)
  • The ‘Observatory of European SMEs’: a research project (running from 1992 till July 2004) on the structure and development of the small business sector in 19 Western European countries. Position: project director of the study, which was during the last phase carried out by 32 research institutes. The project was commissioned by the Enterprise Directorate General of the European Commission. Since 1992 eight series of reports have been prepared (in English, French and German).
  • Support services to micro enterprises and sole proprietors (EC, Enterprise DG)
  • International comparison of organisation and tasks of Chambers of Commerce in 15 EU-countries, the USA and New Zealand.
  • Representativeness of European SME organisations (EC, DG Enterprise).
  • SMEs and Alternative Dispute Resolutions (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG).
  • Promoting craft and SMEs in the area of Standardisation (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG).
  • Promoting Environmental Technologies in SMEs (EC, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville).
  • Self- and Co-regulatory Practices in the EU (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG).
  • Best Practices in the area of Social Protection, for New Entrepreneurs and their spouses (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG).
  • Governance Self Regulation in SANCO Policies, (EC, SANCO DG).
  • Access to Standardisation for SMEs (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG).
  • SME and entrepreneurship policies in the EU-27 for the 2008 Competitiveness Report of the European Commission.
  • Cyclicality of SME finance (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG);
  • Internationalisation of EU SMEs (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG);
  • Annual review of EU SMEs (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG);
  • EU SMEs and subcontracting (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG);
  • SME Performance Review: Annual Report on EU SMEs and 38 national fact sheets;
  • Opportunies for the internationalisation of EU SMEs to third countries (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG);
  • SME loan securitisation (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG);
  • Study on the current situation and prospects of mutuals in Europe (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG)
  • Interim Evaluation of the participation of SMEs in the Cooperation Programme and the Research for the benefit of SMEs schemes under the Capacities Programme of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological development and Demonstration activities 2007-2013 (EC, DG for Research and Innovation), 2014.
  • Enterprise formalization; a search for case studies (ILO), 2014.

Belgium

  • Measuring the costs of administrative burden in several domains in Flanders

Candidate countries

  • Extension of the European Network for Social and Economic Research (ENSR) with partner-organisations in all 13 Candidate Countries.
  • Privatisation in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
  • Consultant to the OECD about Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in the Baltic Rim.

Bulgaria

  • Study on the nascent private sector in Bulgaria, resulting in an action programme (PHARE);
  • Investigation into the need for credit of the Bulgarian private sector in the frame of the establishment of a Credit Guarantee Scheme.
  • Role, functions and internal organisation structure of the SME department of the Bulgarian Ministry of Industry.
  • Organising a study tour to SME institutions in The Netherlands and Portugal for Bulgarian SME officials.
  • Setting up an information system for the Private Industrial Activities Division (SME policy) of the Ministry of Industry.

China

  • Consultant to the National Development & Reform Commission for the support of new and growing businesses in Chengdu

Czech Republic

  • SME Observatory for the Czech Republic (PHARE).

Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

  • Developing a strategy for the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI).
  • Setting up an enterprise research programme and an enterprise database for DCCI.

Egypt

  • Consultant to IDRC (Canada) for a workshop on setting up an SME research programme.

Germany

  • Comparative Dutch-German regional survey on the success of start-ups of entrepreneurial teams.

Hungary

  • Demonstration project for Hungarian SMEs and SME-policy makers

Israel

  • Consultant to the OECD for a workshop on the evaluation of programmes for the promotion of SMEs (for the Israeli Small and Medium Business Agency)

Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Study into the possibility of setting up a Latin American Observatory for SMEs in 26 countries for the Inter-American Development Bank. Mission to Jamaica.
  • Applying the SME Policy Index for 12 Overseas Countries and Territories, EU COSME programme, for Ecorys (Rotterdam), May 2016-February 2017.
  • Advising the Government of Sint Maarten on an SME policy, April 2017.
  • Advising the Government of Aruba on an SME policy, April 2017.
  • Advising the Government of Bonaire on an SME policy, August 2017,
  • Developing an SME policy for the Government of Sint Maarten, September 2017.

Mediterranean countries

  • The 2012 Survey on Sustainable Enterprise Development in Mediterranean Partner Countries (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG)
  • Consultant to IDRC (Canada) for a workshop in Cairo (Egypt) on the relation between SME policy and SME research in the MENA region

Netherlands Antilles

  • Development of an economic SME model for the government of Curacao

OECD countries

  • Consultant to the OECD SME Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (1992-2004)
  • Consultant to the OECD (Paris) in setting up an SME-databank and an SME research programme.
  • Consultant to the OECD (Paris) on Regulatory Reform and SMEs.
  • Independent expert to the OECD and the Italian government concerning the preparation of the Ministerial SME Conference, Bologna June 2000.

PHARE countries

  • Feasibility study to investigate the possibilities of setting up an SME Observatory project (research on the structure and development of SMEs).

Romania

  • Developing an SME policy for the national government (PHARE).

Russian Federation

  • Short-term expert in the TACIS SMERUS9803 project: developing an SME Observatory for the Russian Federation.
  • Organising a study tour for Russian SME officials.
  • Short tern expert in the TACIS SMERUS9803 project: commenting on the final report “SME Observatory for the Russian Federation”.

Slovak Republic

  • Evaluation of the PHARE Programme “SME Development in the Slovak Republic”.
  • Consultant to UNIDO as an international SME expert for the SME project (financed by USAID).

South Africa

  • Feasibility study regarding the establishment of an SME information system and an SME policy and research unit for the Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency, Department of Trade and Industry.
  • Feasibility study into the establishment of a local office in southern Africa.
  • Consultant to the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NAFCOC) and the Afrikaanse Handels Instituut (AHI).
  • Advisor to the Department of Trade and Industry in the frame of the Second National Small Business Conference (Durban, November 1997).
  • Business Impact Assessment of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act of 1997 (facilitator of several workshops in the countryside).
  • National Small Business Regulatory Review, NTSIKA Enterprise Promotion Agency, Pretoria.
  • Technical Assistance to the Policy and Research Division, NTSIKA Enterprise Promotion Agency, Pretoria.
  • Developing an Entrepreneurship Strategy for the Department of Trade and Industry, Pretoria (workshops in Johannesburg).
  • Advice about an SME Advertising strategy for the Standard Bank of South Africa.

South America

  • Feasibility mission to investigate the possibility of establishing an SME Research Network and an SME Information System in the Andean Countries, based on the experiences gained with the European Observatory for SMEs, Bogotá (Colombia). Workshop with SME researchers and statisticians from the Andean countries, IDB and CEPAL.

United Kingdom

  • Oral and written evidence for the House of Lords about the Green Paper on Entrepreneurship in Europe, issued by the Enterprise DG, European Commission
  • Participation of manufacturing SMEs in exporting outside the European Community (commissioned by the European Commission)

United States of America

  • Consultant to IBM for its 1998 Small and Medium-sized Business SAM Leadership Institute, New York

1986 – 1990: Head of Manufacturing Industry Department

Main subjects:

  • Technology and innovation
  • The use of information by SMEs
  • Export and internationalisation
  • Branch studies
  • Project organisation and management
  • Evaluating technology policy for SMEs

During this period completed the following project activities:

Netherlands

  • Innovation, diffusion and information in Dutch small and medium sized industries;
  • Evaluation of a Dutch export information system;
  • Commercial policy of small manufacturing companies acting as subcontractors to large enterprises;
  • Effects of technological development in the field of flexible production automation and new materials on SMEs;
  • The need for training in the metal working industry;
  • Analysis of strong and weak points of SME in the building trade;
  • Impact of the completion of the internal market in 1992 on Dutch SME in general;
  • Analysis of strong and weak points of SMEs in the sector of building services;
  • Impact of the completion of the internal market in 1992 on the sector of building services;
  • Determination of qualifications for export analysts;
  • Preparation of a guide for trans-national co-operation by SMEs;
  • Survey of the structure of the trade in the sector of blinds and shutters;
  • Innovation in manufacturing firms in the province of Overijssel;
  • The role of commercial banks in the innovation process of manufacturing SMEs;
  • Market study into the sector of the building service industry (Dutch partner in the European Building Service Study of BSRIA and Kienbaum);
  • Impact of the completion of the internal market in 1992 on the export performance of the yacht building industry;
  • Logistic management in manufacturing industry;
  • Impact of the completion of the internal market in 1992 on the sectors of painters, stonemasons and plasterers.

Europe

  • Information systems in an innovative branch of manufacturing industry: the environmental production sector (commissioned by the Task Force “European Year of the Environment”, DG XI of the EC);
  • Longitudinal panel study on innovation, in co-operation with research institutes in Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and France.

United Kingdom and Italy

  • Participation of manufacturing SMEs in exporting outside the European Community (commissioned by the EC).

1976 – 1986 Employer: NEI

Employer: NEI Netherlands Economic Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Researcher/senior researcher Department of Regional Economics
Main subjects:

  • Regional economic development
  • Urban renewal
  • Housing and physical planning
  • Transport planning
  • Socio-economic cost benefit analyses

During this period completed the following project activities:

Netherlands

  • Economic aspects of urban renewal;
  • Urban planning at municipal level (population, employment and traffic forecasts, housing, migration, etc.);
  • Physical planning: cost-benefit analysis of new towns versus extending old towns;
  • Impact of offshore developments on local economy and on the environment;
  • Decentralisation of national traffic policy;
  • The need for office accommodation;
  • Financial consequences of alternative housing programmes;
  • Regional consequences of closing down university faculties;
  • Consequences of demographic trends on environmental pollution;
  • Economies of recycling waste material.

Zimbabwe and Mozambique

  • Coal transportation (feasibility) study for the World Bank

Germany

  • Regional action programme for a Dutch-German border region in the frame of the EU Structural Funds (1984-1985)

Selection of publications

  • Cost benefit analysis of new towns in The Netherlands (with J.A. van der Vlist), Netherlands Economic Institute, Series Foundations of Empirical Economic Research nr. 1982/5, Rotterdam
  • Grenzüberschreitendes Aktionsprogramm für das Gebiet der Euregio, (Cross Border Action Programme for the Euregio area), NEI (Netherlands Economic Institute), Rotterdam, 1985.
  • Zimbabwe Coal Transportation Study, NEI (Netherlands Economic Institute), Rotterdam, 1985.
  • De Europese uitdaging (The European Challenge), Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises and the completion of the internal market, EIM, Zoetermeer, 1988.
  • Innovation Processes in Small and Medium-sized Companies (with Jaap Docter and Casper Stokman), Entrepreneurship & Regional Development I, 1989.
  • SME Policy and Organisations in The Netherlands and Hungary (with H.J. Docter, J.A.H. Snijders and Z. Román), Zoetermeer/Budapest, 1991.
  • Western Small Business Experiences beneficial for Eastern European Small Business Economics (with H.J. Docter, J.A.H. Snijders and Z. Román), Zoetermeer-Budapest, 1991.
  • The Volatility of the Small Business Sector in The Netherlands, OECD, Montreal, 1992.
  • Interfirm co-operation in The Netherlands (with Cinzia Mancini), in: Co-operation & Competitiveness; Interfirm Co-operation, a means towards SME Competitiveness, Proceedings International Conference, Lisbon, 6-8 October 1993.
  • Feiten over samenwerking door Nederlandse bedrijven (Facts and Figures about International Co-operation by Dutch SMEs), in: Samenwerken met bedrijven in Europa (Co-operating with businesses in Europe), Alphen aan den Rijn/Diegem, 1995.
  • The role of SMEs in networking and subcontracting (with Cinzia Mancini), Business, Growth & Profitability, December 1995.
  • A comparison of SME policy in the EU Member States (with Karin I. de Lind van Wijngaarden), Business, Growth & Profitability, March 1996.
  • Entrepreneurship in Western and Eastern Europe, in: Industrial organisation and entrepreneurship in transition, Varna, Bulgaria, June 1995.
  • Mittelstandspolitik in den EU-Mitgliedstaaten (SME policy in the EU Member States; with Karin de Lind van Wijngaarden) in: Mittelstandsförderung in der Praxis (SME support in practice), Cologne, 1996.
  • The European Observatory for SMEs (with Karin de Lind van Wijngaarden), in: Hans Landström, Hermann Franck, José M. Veciana, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research in Europe; an ECSB Survey, Avebury, Aldershot, 1997.
  • The State of Small Business in The Netherlands 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, EIM, Zoetermeer.
  • Het Nederlandse MKB in Europees perspectief (Dutch SMEs in European perspective; with Karin de Lind van Wijngaarden) in: D.P. Scherjon and A.R. Thurik (ed.) Handboek Ondernemers en adviseurs in het MKB (SME Entrepreneurs’ and Advisors’ Manual), Deventer, 1998.
  • Presentazione di un’indagine sulla tassazione e la creazione di imprese in alcuni Paesi europei (Presentation of a study on the taxation and creation of enterprise in some EU Member States) in: Costruire un contesto fiscale europeo per la crescita delle PMI e dell’artigianato (Creation of a fiscal context for the growth of SMEs and craft firms), CNA, Brussels 1997.
  • How to collect good information on working and employment conditions in SMEs? Job quality within the perspective of overall HRM policy (with Eric van Straten), Paper presented at the Workshop “Employment Conditions in EU micro firms”, Dublin, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, September 1998.
  • UEAPME and EIM in: Liber Amicorum Jan Kamminga, President UEAPME 1994-1998, Brussels, March 1999.
  • Regulatory Policies and their Impact on SMEs in Europe: the case of Administrative Burdens (with André Nijsen and Selcuk Gulhan) in: Donald Sexton and Hans Lundström, Handbook of Entrepreneurship, Malden (USA), 2000.
  • Supporting enterprises throughout their life cycle: current policy work on the business environment, for the Conference “Small enterprises in our economy”, European Commission, Enterprise Directorate-General, Brussels, 23 May 2002.
  • The Observatory of European SMEs, EIM and European Network for SME Research (ENSR), Zoetermeer, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Reports, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004.
  • Rob van der Horst, Sandra King-Kauanui, Susan Duffy (ed.), Keystones of Entrepreneurship Knowledge, Published on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the International Council for Small Business ICSB, Blackwell, Malden/Oxford, 2005.
  • Ruud Hoevenagel, Guido Brummelkamp, Anna Peytcheva and Rob van der Horst , Promoting Environmental Technologies in SMEs: Barriers and Measures, Editors: Josefina Lindblom and Luis Delgado, EUR Number: 22769 EN, Publication date: 5/2007.
  • Elk, Koos van, Rob van der Horst, Access to Standardisation, 2009 (Report submitted to the Enterprise and Industry DG of the European Commission).
  • Snijders, Jacqueline, Jennifer Telussa, Rob van der Horst, Study on representativeness of SME business organisations in the Member States for the European Union (2009). (Report submitted to the DG Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission).
  • Audretsch, David, Rob van der Horst, Ton Kwaak, Roy Thurik, First section of the annual review on EU small and medium-sized enterprises (2009). (Report submitted to the DG Enterprise and Industry DG of the European Commission).
  • Horst, Rob van der, Jennifer Telussa, The economics of entrepreneurial activity and SMEs: policy implications for the EU (2008), (Report prepared for the Competitiveness Report 2008 and submitted to the Enterprise and Industry DG of the European Commission).
  • Horst, Rob van der, Paul van der Zeijden, Governance Self-regulation Best Practices in SANCO Policies 1999-2006 (2008). (Report submitted to the DG for Health and Consumers DG of the European Commission).
  • Horst, Rob van der, Paul van der Zeijden and Sander Oudmaijer, Self and co-regulatory practices in the European Union, 2006, (Report submitted to the DG Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission).
  • Elk, Koos van, Rob van der Horst, Opportunities for the Internationalisation of European SMEs, 2011 (Report submitted to the DG Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission).
  • Hillebrand de Vries, Gerben,  Lia Smit, Peter Poledna and Rob van der Horst, SME loan securitisation (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG).
  • The 2012 Survey on Sustainable Enterprise Development in Mediterranean Partner Countries (EC Enterprise & Industry DG).
  • Buiskool, Bert-Jan, Simon Broek and Rob van der Horst, Study on the current situation and prospects of mutuals in Europe (EC, Enterprise & Industry DG).
  • Rob van der Horst, Lebanon SME Observatory Feasibility Study, World Bank, February 2016.
  • Rob van der Horst, Huib Poot and Marva Titley-Smith, SME Policy in Caribbean OCTs – Application of the SME Policy Index, Ecorys, COSME Programme, December 2016.
  • Rob van der Horst, Jordan SME-Entrepreneurship Observatory, Mission report, 12 March 2017.
  • Rob van der Horst, An Entrepreneurship Policy for Sint Eustatius, 4 June 2017.
  • Rob van der Horst, An Entrepreneurship Policy for Anguilla, 8 June 2017.
  • Rob van der Horst, An Entrepreneurship and SME Policy for Bonaire, 4 September 2017.