In this paper, we argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation in the economy. Institutions … evasive entrepreneurship can be both productive and unproductive/destructive, its dynamic character is more important because … evasive entrepreneurship may be able to prevent economic development from being stifled by existing institutions during times …

burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self-employment. Europe has a higher self-employment rate than the United … States and East Asia. At the same time, Europe has a lower entrepreneurship rate than competitor regions. Europe … underperforms in entrepreneurship despite having advantages such as a skilled labour force, good infrastructure, large markets and …

. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …