Entrepreneurship and economic performance: a macro perspective

Roy Thurik, Sander Wennekers and Lorraine Uhlaner

No N200220, Scales Research Reports from EIM Business and Policy Research

Abstract: The present paper provides a theoretical framework of the relationship between the rate of entrepreneurship and national economic performance. The first part deals with some aspects of the recent economics literature on the relation between entrepreneurship and small business on the one hand, and economic growth on the other. In particular, it gives a summary of some work of the EIM/CASBEC research group in The Netherlands. In the second part, a framework is presented linking entrepreneurship and growth to different levels of aggregation. The last part of the paper illustrates the framework with some historical case studies. The present paper supplements Wennekers, Uhlaner and Thurik (2002) and is concerned with the causes of the rate of entrepreneurship.

Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2002-11-01
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