Measuring entrepreneurship: Type, motivation, and growth

Artikel

Policymakers rely on entrepreneurs to create jobs, provide incomes, innovate, pay taxes to support public revenues, create competition in industries, and much more. Due to its highly heterogeneous nature, the choice of entrepreneurship measures is critically important, impacting the diagnosis, analysis, projection, and understanding of potential and existing policy. Some key aspects to measure include the how (self-employment, new firm formation), why (necessity, opportunity), and what (growth). As such, gaining better insight into the challenges of measuring entrepreneurship is a necessary and productive investment for policymakers.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2016 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Entrepreneurship ; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General ; Economic Development: General
• Subject: measurement ; self-employment ; new firm entry density ; high-growth entrepreneurship

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Desai, Sameeksha
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.327
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/162338
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET