More than half of all attempts to start a business fail. In a quest to help explain the variance in this phenomenon, we develop and test hypotheses related to the role that the objective environment, entrepreneurial perceptions, and start-up activities play in the new venture creation process....

The 2005 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) reportfocuses on high-expectation entrepreneurship on a global scale.High-expectation entrepreneurial activity refers to entrepreneurial firms, bothnascent and new, that expect to achieve rapid growth in employment size. Data were collected from 44...

During the last decade digitisation has transformed the character of entrepreneurial activities as for both the entrepreneurial opportunities and the practices to pursue them. In this context, to ensure that the new productivity potential is fully deployed to the benefits of economic growth and...

Acclaim for the 2011 edition: The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index ... focuses on high-growth companies. It tries to measure the ambition of entrepreneurs as well as the prevalence of start-ups. It presents its results in ways that are designed to capture the attention of...