to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …

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 …

Introduction: Europe's Innovation Emergency -- Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the European Union - a Reform Agenda …

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 …

effort requires extensive and broad-based institutional reforms aimed at strengthening the incentives for entrepreneurship …. Innovative entrepreneurship requires collaborations with numerous agents that provide those skills and resources that the … markets, and (vi) human capital for entrepreneurship. The reforms would likely strengthen Europe's innovation capacity at a …

to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …

and finance"- approach to entrepreneurship. We argue that more fundamental reforms are required to improve the … investigating how the interplay of institutions and productive entrepreneurship results in economic growth. …