Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2015 [antikvár]

The globalization of entrepreneurship is producing an explosion of programs, start-up communities, policy interventions, and investments across the world. Now, ideas, capital, and talent spread across borders finding "founder teams" to create new ventures that fuel economic growth and stability. These are exciting times when a new generation of risk takers is leveling the playing field and creating new opportunities for more people. These developments are manifested in the various activities of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN)-a community that has arisen from Global Entrepreneurship Week, the annual celebration of entrepreneurs now in more than 150 countries. Started as a grassroots movement anchored in established economies with stable political systems, GEN has evolved and matured into a year-round platform that operates in all types of economies and cultures. A careful look at this entrepreneurial renaissance reveals, however, that new challenges have emerged. In particular, data collection and analysis have not been able to keep pace with the rapid growth of programs and other interventions designed to increase rates of new firm formation. There exists a paucity of data, not just around what works and what does not in supporting new entrepreneurs, but about the overall entrepreneurial performance of our societies. In short, we do not know where and how our efforts are succeeding and failing. Countries seeking to add entrepreneurial resilience to their economies benchmark their regulatory frameworks and ecosystem performance against other economies. At the same time, academics and economists still debate what to measure, which data are credible, and which methodologies should be considered reliable. This has given rise to a new dialogue between start-up community leaders and government leaders seeking more sophisticated tools, programs, and research to help them most efficiently direct their attention and funds to areas that have the greatest impact on future economic growth. Such dialogue is certainly a key part of the experimentation formula that unearths solutions in both the start-up and policy worlds-and as a broad-based movement of leaders and feeders to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, GEN is actively