Recently added articles from Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship:
Defining and measuring entrepreneurship.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008; Iversen, Jens ... Abstract Although entrepreneurship has become a buzzword in the public debate, a coherent definition of entrepreneurship has not yet emerged. In this paper, we review and compare the most common theoretical definitions of entrepreneurship in economics and discuss their ...
1 Introduction.(Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship)
Jan 01, 2008; Iversen, Jens ... "Entrepreneurship" has become a buzzword in the public debate in recent years. It is extensively referred to by policy-makers as one of the roads to future prosperity, and cross-country comparisons of entrepreneurial activity have become increasingly popular. However, the concept of ...
2 Defining entrepreneurship.(Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship)
Jan 01, 2008; Iversen, Jens ... Throughout history many scholars have studied the role of the entrepreneur. A review of the most important contributions within this literature is presented in this section. We focus on contributions within (or related to) economics, leaving out definitions from the fields of, e.g., ...
3 Measuring entrepreneurship.(Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship)
Jan 01, 2008; Iversen, Jens ... Given the disagreement among scholars on the definition of entrepreneurship, is it then possible to measure the level of entrepreneurial activity? Clearly, the answer to this question is not straightforward and we need to address several issues before we may provide a satisfactory ...
4 Comparison and discussion.(Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship)
Jan 01, 2008; Iversen, Jens ... As noted in the previous section, no general measure of entrepreneurship contained in a single number can be constructed. As such, researchers need to consider specialized measures which focus on specify dimensions of entrepreneurship. According to our theoretical discussion, these aspects ...
5 Conclusion.(Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship)
Jan 01, 2008; Iversen, Jens ... "Entrepreneurship" is frequently advocated in the public debate as the solution to all (or at least most of) our trouble. However, often we do not know precisely what is meant with it, nor is it clear, what the different empirical measures of entrepreneurship are capturing. In this paper, ...
Appendix.(Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship)(Survey)
Jan 01, 2008; Iversen, Jens ... Part of the preceding analysis is based on survey data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP)--a comprehensive European panel study that at present contains eight waves covering the period 1994-2001. The data is provided by Eurostat and based on interviews with households. The ...
Acknowledgments.(Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship)
Jan 01, 2008; Iversen, Jens ... The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this project from the Danish National Agency for Enterprise and Construction. We also wish to thank the editor, David Audretsch and Christian Scheuer, for many constructive suggestions and Bertel Schjerning for his work on ...
References.(Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship)
Jan 01, 2008; Iversen, Jens ... Acs, Z. J. and D. B. Audretsch (1989), 'Small-firm entry in US manufacturing'. Economica 56(222), 255-265. Acs, Z. J., D. B. Audretsch, and D. S. Evans (1994), 'Why does the self-employment rate vary across countries and over time?'. CEPR Discussion Paper 871. Acs, ...
