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- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 3
- The global entrepre...
The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
- Asked person / Interviewee
- published
- Tue Apr 14 2009
- Number of discussion paper
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2009-028
- keyword(s)
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Development
Entrepreneurship
Globalization
Index
Innovation
Institutions
Knowledge
Stages of Growth
- abstract
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This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not U-shaped or L-shaped. Our 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 economic development. Implications for public policy suggest that institutions need to be strengthened before entrepreneurial resource can be deployed to drive innovation.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- entrepreneurship
- JEL-Classification for JER
- L26 - Entrepreneurship ; O1 - Economic Development; O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development