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This page presents a comprehensive list of indicators of entrepreneurial determinants. The list draws from the reports "Quality Assessment of Entrepreneurship Indicators", prepared by FORA (Denmark). Indicators are classified into the six categories of determinants set by the OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP).
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The Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP) is a co-ordinated effort to agree on a policy-relevant, analytical model, build a measurement infrastructure and gather comparable data.
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The Manual includes indicators that are essential for comparability across OECD countries and the investigation of entrepreneurship, namely indicators of employer enterprises, and, importantly, high growth enterprises, particularly young high-growth enterprises, referred to here as "gazelles".
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Business start-up rates diverging across OECD economies |
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New enterprises, selected countries |
12/11/2012 - Diverging patterns of business start-up rates are emerging across OECD economies five years after the sharp, synchronized falls recorded at the beginning of the financial crisis. Start-up rates remain below pre-crisis levels in most Eurozone economies and the United States. For those Eurozone countries where data are available, France is the exception, with start-up rates boosted significantly in 2009 and 2010 by the introduction of new legislation in January 2009 for auto-entrepreneurs.
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