The main aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the factors explaining the entrepreneurial rates in Italy and the differences with the same factors in a sample of EU countries. The reason for this study is that during the last decade Italy showed one of the lowest rates of...

This paper summarizes interviews from 1998 with 590 individuals trying to create a business centered around five questions: 'Who are you?', 'What are you trying to accomplish?', 'What have you and others put into the business?', 'What have you accomplished?', 'What remains to be done?' There is...