Title: Ten years of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: accomplishments and prospects

Authors: José Ernesto Amorós; Niels Bosma; Jonathan Levie

Addresses: School of Business and Economics, Universidad del Desarrollo, Av. Plaza 700, Santiago, RM 761-0658, Chile ' Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80125, NL-3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands ' Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship @ Strathclyde, University of Strathclyde, Level 7 Strathclyde Business School, 199 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0QU, UK

Abstract: In its first ten years, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) has had three main aims: to measure differences in the level of entrepreneurial activity between countries, to uncover factors determining national levels of entrepreneurial activity and to identify policies that would stimulate entrepreneurship. This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical contributions by the GEM consortium ten years after the presentation of its first Global Report in 1999. The evolution of GEM measures of entrepreneurship is tracked, and the quantity and quality of peer-reviewed scholarship based on GEM data and models are assessed. Prospects and recommendations for the future are noted, as GEM continues to expand and scholars outside the consortium increasingly employ GEM data in their work.

Keywords: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; GEM; entrepreneurial activity; economic development; entrepreneurship policy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEV.2013.053591

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 2013 Vol.5 No.2, pp.120 - 152

Received: 17 Oct 2009
Accepted: 01 Sep 2010

Published online: 30 Jan 2014 *

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