Digital Entrepreneurship Landscapes in Developing Asia: Insights from the Global Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems

Erkko Autio (), Yothin Jinjarak (), Éva Komlósi (), Donghyun Park, László Szerb and Mónika Tiszberger ()
Additional contact information
Erkko Autio: Imperial College Business School
Yothin Jinjarak: Asian Development Bank
Éva Komlósi: University of Pécs
Mónika Tiszberger: University of Pécs

No 720, ADB Economics Working Paper Series from Asian Development Bank

Abstract: Digitalization transforms how entrepreneurs pursue opportunities. To understand this transformative impact on entrepreneurship, we present the Global Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems (GIDES), a composite indicator developed to assess the performance of the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem at the national level. To address existing conceptual gaps, GIDES concurrently monitors the general, structural and digital framework contexts supporting digital entrepreneurship. The digital framework conditions, describing the general level of digitalization of the economy, affect entrepreneurial activity through their impact on general and systemic framework conditions. Unlike traditional entrepreneurship or most entrepreneurial ecosystem measures, GIDES takes a systemic approach utilizing the Penalty for Bottleneck (PFB) algorithm to spot bottlenecks connecting elements that could potentially degrade overall system performance. With GIDES, we provide a measure of the digital transformation of entrepreneurship for policymakers who want to improve the quality and productivity potential of the entrepreneurial resource allocation dynamic in their countries. For illustration, GIDES profiles the digital entrepreneurship systems of 113 countries, with a special focus on 21 in developing Asia.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; digitalization; digital entrepreneurship ecosystem; composite indicator; GIDES; Asian developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 O32 O33 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2024-04-16
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.adb.org/publications/digital-entrepren ... apes-developing-asia Full text (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:adbewp:0720

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in ADB Economics Working Paper Series from Asian Development Bank 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Orlee Velarde ().