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Synopsis:.
This report constitutes the seventh annual assessment and review of the state of entrepreneurship in countries participating in the GEM project. Since its inception in 1999 by scholars at Babson College and London Business School, GEM has developed into one of the world’s leading research consortium concerned with improving the understanding of the relationship(s) between entrepreneurial activity and national economic growth. To this end, the project has, from the start, been designed as a multinational research program providing annual assessments of the entrepreneurial sector for a range of countries.
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See "Middle income nations foster more start-ups"
Entrepreneurs in countries with middle per capita income are closing the gap on their counterparts in richer countries by tapping into technologies unavailable to them just a year ago, according to an international study of start-up activity.
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the largest annual measure of start-up activity, found that higher percentages of people start businesses in middle income countries, such as Thailand and Brazil, than rich nations, such as Spain and Japan.
Venezuela, where a quarter of the population is involved in start-ups, had the highest level of early-stage entrepreneurial activity, followed by Thailand on 20.7 per cent and New Zealand at 17.6 per cent.
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