All these projects use microeconomic data on Belgian firms that we have made available for the different research teams. Moreover, these teams have been meeting regularly to discuss the progress made with their work. These exchanges of views also give the Bank a way of encouraging the sharing of knowledge and scientific research.
I hope that they have been beneficial for the participants and enabled them to optimise the quality of their work. Four of the contributions look in particular at the strategies put into place by internationally active firms. In so doing, they tackle some very relevant questions on the factors that enable firms to maintain their international competitiveness.