Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Thurik, A.R.
Author-Name-Last: Thurik
Author-Name-First: Roy
Author-Person: pth26
Author-Name: Wennekers, A.R.M.
Author-Name-Last: Wennekers
Author-Name-First: Sander
Title: A Note on Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Economic Growth
Abstract: The aim of the present short paper is to show that since the 1970s the world has changed considerably, and that this change has had consequences for the current policy debate on the determinants of economic growth. Our paper deals with some aspects of the recent scientific literature on the relation between entrepreneurship and small business, on the one hand, and economic growth, on the other. In particular, it gives a summary of some work of the EIM/CASBEC research group in the Netherlands. It refers to scientific analyses showing that countries that are lagging behind in the process of restructuring will pay a penalty in terms of forgone growth. It also pays attention to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a new and large multinational project focusing on the collection and analysis of internationally comparable data on the rate of entrepreneurial activity.
Creation-Date: 2001-11-01
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/125/erimrs20011101173530.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2001-60-STR
Classification-JEL: L11, L20, M, M13, O10
Keywords: economic development, entrepreneurship, growth, market structure, small firms
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:125