The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and Its Impact on Entrepreneurship Research

Niels Bosma ()

Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship, 2013, vol. 9, issue 2, 143-248

Abstract: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a project carried out by a research consortium dedicated to understanding the relationship between entrepreneurship and national economic development. Since 1999 GEM reports have been a key source of comparable data across a large variety of countries on attitudes toward entrepreneurship, start-up and established business activities, and aspirations of entrepreneurs for their businesses. The growing databases increasingly allow for in-depth academic research and this is mirrored by the rapidly increasing amount of GEM-based scientific publications in a wider range of academic journals. At this point it is appropriate to provide an overview on these publications, to summarize their main contributions, and to provide some directions for obtaining promising GEM-based academic contributions in the future. This publication provides a review of 89 GEM-based academic publications in SSCI-listed journals since 2004, with the objectives to highlight the particular advantages of GEM data, their quality and usability, as well as their limitations. It also recommends a number of ways in which the GEM project might evolve further and make more impact on entrepreneurship research, on entrepreneurship policy and practice, and ultimately on getting more grip on the complex relation between entrepreneurship and economic development.

Keywords: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; Entrepreneurial Activity; Economic Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 J24 L26 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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