New firms create new jobs. Many studies have shown that SMEs do play an important role in job creation. Others state that this role is overestimated due to the high job destruction rate among SMEs. Still, the net effect of new firms on employment creation can remain positive, especially when a...

This paper provides an introduction into the field of international entrepreneurship. A definition of international entrepreneurship and associated key concepts is given and the research domain of international entrepreneurship is described. A substantial part of the international...

This report is part of the research program “SMEs and Entrepreneurship” which is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.

We investigate the role of an entrepreneur’s start-up motivation in determining the mode of entrepreneurial exit. A distinction is made between involuntary exit through business failure and voluntary exit through business sell-out or transfer. Regarding an entrepreneur’s start-up motivation,...

There is evidence that entrepreneurial activity plays a non-negligible role in driving economic development. In this paper we investigate whether the industry in which the entrepreneurial activity takes place matters for economic growth, both in developed and developing countries. We distinguish...

In 2010 was 7,2% van alle Nederlanders in de leeftijdscategorie 18-64 jaar bezig om een nieuw bedrijf op te richten of actief als ondernemer van een bedrijf dat korter dan 3,5 jaar bestaat. Hiermee heeft Nederland vorig jaar voor het eerst de koppositie ingenomen van de EU-landen die deelnemen...

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a research program executed annually with the aim to obtain internationally comparative high quality research data on entrepreneurial activity at the national level. This academic research consortium started as a partnership between the London...

De Global Entrepreneurship Monitor is het grootste onderzoek naar ondernemerschap over 69 landen. Nederland participeert in dit onderzoek sinds 2001. Voor het Nederlandse deel wordt het onderzoek uitgevoerd door Panteia/EIM. Onder ondernemers worden verstaan Nederlanders tussen de 18 en 64 jaar,...

As globalisation increases so does the attention paid to the internationalisation of Dutch SMEs. The appearance of new players on the European market and on the world market means on the one hand that Dutch SMEs are being confronted with greater foreign competition on their domestic market. On...

Entrepreneurial ability has been suggested to be an important predictor of entrepreneurial engagement. In this paper we investigate the extent to which different types of recent entrepreneurial exit experiences foster entrepreneurial ability and subsequent entrepreneurial engagement. We...