Overview
- Presents the most recent data on entrepreneurship and development from 120 countries
- Captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship with focus on entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities and aspirations
- Provides a model that has important implications for entrepreneurship and development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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About this book
This volume captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the authors have created an index that offers a measure of the quality of the business formation process in 120 of the most important countries in the world. The authors expertly capture the contextual feature of entrepreneurship by focusing on entrepreneurial attitudes, entrepreneurial abilities and entrepreneurial aspirations. The data and their contribution to the business formation process are supported by three decades of research into entrepreneurship across a host of countries.
The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index is a construction of individual and institutional measures that integrates 31 variables from various data sources into 15 pillars, three sub-indexes and a 'super index'. The relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development appears to be more or less mildly S-shaped. The findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries illustrating a U-shaped or L-shaped relationship to more complex measures, which are positively related to development. The model has important implications for development policy.
This unique book will be invaluable for researchers, policymakers and entrepreneurs keen to expand their understanding of entrepreneurship and development.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2014
Authors: Zoltan J. Acs, László Szerb, Erkko Autio
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14932-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14931-8Published: 26 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14932-5Published: 11 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-5504
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5512
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 132
Number of Illustrations: 31 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Originally published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Washington, DC, USA , 2014
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth, Innovation/Technology Management