We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …

deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …, considerable differences remain. These constitute the basis for the concluding policy discussion. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation …

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 …

The bottom-up power of informal entrepreneurship / José Ernesto Amors, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Oscar Cristi and Maria … Windebank -- Informal entrepreneurship and informal entrepreneurial activity in Russia / Alexander Chepurenko -- The shadow … and determinants / Yasser Abdih and Leandro Medina -- What is to be done about entrepreneurship in the shadow economy …

entrepreneurship / José Ernesto Amorós, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Oscar Cristi and Maria Minniti -- 2. Estimating the size of the shadow … shadow economy in the European Union / Colin C. Williams, Ioana A Horodnic and Jan Windebank -- 5. Informal entrepreneurship … Abdih and Leandro Medina -- 9. What is to be done about entrepreneurship in the shadow economy? / Colin C. Williams. …

Mirjam van Praag compares and contrasts the economic theory of entrepreneurship with determinants of successful … entrepreneurship derived from empirical evidence, in an attempt to discover what makes for an accomplished entrepreneur. The author …'s state-of-the-art historical, theoretical and empirical research on successful entrepreneurship--all from an explicit …