{"id":3573,"date":"2012-07-30T14:59:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativemv.com\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2024-10-23T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T16:38:20","slug":"european-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemv.com\/nl\/european-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"European agenda for Entrepreneurship 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Committee asks for consultation on the agenda for the European Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan. Since several decades Europe is trying to stimulate entrepreneurship in Europe. Research of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor defines a lack of startups comparing to for instance countries like the United States. More new businesses simply means more jobs and more growth and this is the main aim for Europe to take action. They also claim that this lack of entrepreneurial drive is not due to an overall dislike of European population towards entrepreneurship but to concrete structural, administrative and cultural reasons that put a brake on enterprise creation. And that can be tackled.<\/p>\n

Development of entrepreneurship in Europe<\/h2>\n

Only since a few years the importance, and\u00a0the determinates of entrepreneurship in Europe is researched. Insight in the determinants of entrepreneurship is crucial for shaping public policies and the assessment of their merits. Interesting is the effect of demographic and other variables on latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the probability of a declared preference for self-employment over employment. Other than demographic variables such as gender, age and education level, variables\u00a0like country specific effects, the perception of administrative complexities and of availability of financial support and a rough measure of risk tolerance, are important for\u00a0a set of\u00a0right conditions to start a business.<\/p>\n

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor is, since 1999, an annual assessment of the entrepreneurial activity, aspirations and attitudes of individuals across a wide range of 70 countries. GEM explores the role of entrepreneurship in national economic growth and has become an important report. The last report <\/a>(2011) shows that Russia and the United Arab Emirates, countries that place a high emphasis on extractive resources, exhibit the lowest entrepreneurial intention rates. In contrast, expectations to start a business are expressively high in some other emerging economies like China, Chile and Brazil. In the Dutch report it appears that about one third (34%) of the entrepreneurs was influenced in the decision to become an entrepreneur by (a) role model(s). In 2010 7.2% of all Dutch people (age 18-64 years) started of was active in their own company (exists <3,5 years.) Of all high developed economic countries The Netherlands now has the first place in Europe and globally the fifth, just behind the US. Ten years ago The Netherlands was only half of the index of the US, so we made\u00a0a lot of progression through the years.<\/p>\n

GEM gives as advice:<\/p>\n