Entrepreneurship International Sources of Data

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EntrepreneurshipInternational Sources of Data
ORGANISATION DE COOPÉRATION ET DE DEVELOPMENT
ÉCONOMIQUES
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND
DEVELOPMENT
EIP Staff Statistics directorate OECD
Entrepreneurship Indicators Steering
Group Rome 5/6 December 2006

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Collection of data

• 2005 EIP Starts collecting data on
  entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship has driven interests from
  various organisations for a long time
• Link with economic growth and stability of
  economies
• Ex EU Objective foster entrepreneurship
• Definition of entrepreneurship evolution and
  multiple facets (OECD definitions)
• Main elements for a definition start-up rates
  and high growth

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List of various sources

• Nature of sources private/ public sector,
  statistics, surveys
• List of international sources 2 sets of data
• World Bank
• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor GEM
• The European Union with two main surveys
  Eurobarometer of the EC and Factors of Business
  Success for Eurostat
• FORA The National Agency for Enterprise and
  Constructions Division for Research and Analysis

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List of various sources

• Harmonisation of definitions
• EIM from Netherlands (harmonisation of
  self-employment data)
• OECD Directorates
• Statistics Directorate (business statistics and
  business demography statistics
• STI Directorate ( ICCP Indicators Innovation,
  RD, investment)

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World Bank Group

• 1. Doing Business Database
• Study of business environment law and
  regulations
• Remove administrative burdens and create
  incentives
• 2. SME across the Globe A new Database, 2003
• Measuring the SME sector
• - New indicators share of SMEs in the total
  labour force with 250 employees (consistent
  measure of firm size)
• - share of SMEs in the total labour force with
  250 employees based on national definitions (100
  to 500)
• - issues of comparability

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World Bank Group

• Quality business environment indicator aggregate
  measure of entry and exit costs, contract
  enforcement, property rights protection, business
  registration level, insolvency etc
• ? Positive relationship business environment/
  size of SME sector
• ? An effective business environment generates
  growth

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World Bank Group

• 3. The importance of the business environment
• Definition of entrepreneurship the effort an
  individual or a group makes to initiate an
  economic activity under a legal form of business
  within the formal sector
• New data on entry rates and business density

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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

• Measure entrepreneurship and identify policies
• Entrepreneurship as a life cycle
• Measurement
• TEA Total Entrepreneurship Activity
• Nascent entrepreneurs ( less than 3 months)
• New businesses (more than 3 months but less than
  42)
• Established businesses
• Limits of the study
• Sample issues
• Opinion based indicators

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The European Union

• Eurobarometer
• Entrepreneurship as personal fulfilment and
  social objectives.
• - April 2004, 29 countries and sample of 20 000
  people
• Gathered data on perception of entrepreneurship
  in terms of preferences
• Analysis of EU vs. USA
• EU employees, stability, security
• USA self employed, full achievement

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The European Union

• Eurostat The Factor of Business Success ( ISTAT
  Seminar)
• - 15 European countries, July 2005- Jan 2006
• - Determine the factors of success and growth of
  newly born enterprises, motivations for starting
  up ones own business, barriers and risks
• - Questions on entrepreneurs profile, business
  characteristics (turnover and employees),
  business strategy.
• - Results released in November 2006

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EIM

• Specific work on Self Employment Data and
  Definitions financed by the Dutch Ministry of
  Economic Affairs
• Compendia Database Uniformed data on
  Entrepreneurship for 23 countries over the period
  1972-2002
• Two-yearly data on the number of non agricultural
  business owners and the size of the labour force
• Based on OECD Labour Force Statistics readjusted

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OECD Directorates

• Statistics Directorate, Business Statistics
• 3 databases
• Business demography statistics implementation of
  a framework and collaboration with Eurostat
• Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Scoreboard
  2005
• Measures of output, labour input, investment and
  international trade by economic activity
• ? productivity growth, competitiveness and
  general structural change.
• ? good indicator of entrepreneurial capacity of
  countries

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Conclusion

• Future Work compilation of existing data
• ? requires harmonisation of data
• Gaps and Needs for international data
• Establish priorities and new collection
• QUESTIONS ?