Welcome to EIM's Public Knowledge Web on SMEs and Entrepreneurship. This website contains PDF-versions of more than 200 reports written in English, including General Reports (also available in print) and Research Reports (electronic working papers). It also gives you online entry to a number of datasets.

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2009 The Netherlands

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a research program executed annually with the aim to obtain internationally comparative high quality research data on entrepreneurial activity at the national level. This academic research consortium started as a partnership between the London Business School and Babson College in 1999 and started with 10 participating countries in this same year. Over the years GEM has expanded to comprise 54 countries in 2009. Currently, GEM is the single largest study of entrepreneurial activity in the world. The GEM research program provides a harmonized assessment of the level of national entrepreneurial activity and conditions to which it is subject for all participating countries. The Netherlands has participated in GEM since 2001.

The share of the Dutch adult population that is setting up their own business or that owns-manages a business that exists for less than 3.5 years has risen considerably from 5.2% in 2008 to 7.2% in 2009. This means that the Netherlands now scores in the top five of all EU-countries that participate in GEM. As compared to countries with a similar level of economic development, however, entrepreneurship among higher educated individuals is lacking behind in the Netherlands. This is one of the results of the GEM 2009 report for the Netherlands. Other issues addressed in this report include developments in entrepreneurial capabilities and intentions, the impact of the economic crisis on entrepreneurial activity, social early-stage entrepreneurship and user innovation.

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International Entrepreneurship: Value Creation Across National Borders

This book investigates antecedents and outcomes of international entrepreneurship. International entrepreneurship as a field of research involves both research into entrepreneurship in multiple countries (cross-country comparisons of the nature and extent of entrepreneurial activity) and research into cross-border entrepreneurship (international activity of small and medium-sized enterprises and new ventures). Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for national economic development e.g. through the generation of innovations and employment. However, considerable differences exist between countries in the extent to which entrepreneurship is innovation- or growthoriented and consequently in the extent to which entrepreneurship contributes positively to national economic development. Therefore, it is essential for scientists, policy makers and entrepreneurs, to gain insight into the factors that affect the emergence of (various types of) entrepreneurship and into the economic outcomes of (various types of) entrepreneurship. This book is devoted to examining such issues, with a specific focus on cross-border entrepreneurship. The chapters included in this book address various research themes, such as the relationship between international trade and innovation, the extent to which foreign direct investment and international trade are sources of knowledge spillovers, the role of cross-border entrepreneurship in economic growth and the impact of social welfare schemes on entrepreneurship. In investigating these issues both micro-economic and macro-economic analyses are used. The book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises, Part II on new venture internationalization, while Part III presents cross-country studies of entrepreneurship.

This PhD dissertation was realized as part of the research collaboration between the public research programme on SMEs and Entrepreneurship carried out by EIM/Panteia, and Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. For more research findings on entrepreneurship also visit our joint Entrepreneurship Research Portal.

A pdf of the book may be downloaded here.