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Figures compiled from Entrepreneurship in Ireland 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report and GEM Report 2011;*

Figures compiled from Entrepreneurship in Ireland 2010 GEM report and GEM Report 2011; Ireland is not alone in experiencing this decline in entrepreneurial activity.

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Head of Ad Adult Popula dult Populat ation 2004 & tion 2004 & & 2010 2010 FORFÃ S EVALUATION OF ENTERPRISE SUPPORTS FOR START-UPS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP 25

s July 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor July 2013 Annual Employment Survey 2012 Forfã¡

and supports available to any person wishing to-18-9 CSO (2012) Migration and Diversity. 10 GEM (2012) Entrepreneurship in Ireland recommendations recommendations recommendations establish a business

Reports GEM Ireland National Report,(2012) GEM USA National Report (2012) Gibb, A.,Haskins, G,

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), which provides useful international comparative information on entrepreneurship, reflects the difficulties for entrepreneurship which Ireland has experienced in recent years.

The GEM measure of total early-stage entrepreneurial activity6 (TEA) peaked at 9. 8%in 2005

Ireland was ranked second across the EU-15 and ninth across the EU-28 for TEA by GEM in its 2013 report.

The 2013 GEM report also revealed a significant improvement in attitudes towards entrepreneurship. It showed that 50%of Irish adults considered entrepreneurship to be a good career choice

According to GEM 2013, Irish men are 1. 9 times more likely than Irish women to be an early stage entrepreneur, with rates of early stage entrepreneurs at 12.1%for men and 6

Altogether, the index construction integrates 31 variables, 16 from GEM and 15 from other data sources, into 14 pillars and three sub-indexes.

Culture, Human Capital & Education The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) provides an annual assessment of the entrepreneurial activity,

GEM measures the involvement of individuals in entrepreneurial activity through a number of stages, from aspiring entrepreneurs to nascent entrepreneurs and new business owners.

Performance Indicators Culture, Human Capital & Education Metric Source Baseline-2013 Output-2014 CULTURE Aspirational Entrepreneurs GEM 14.7%Nascent Entrepreneurs GEM

5. 5%Total Early Stage Entrepreneurial Activity GEM 9. 2%Public Attitude to Entrepreneurship GEM 50%Participation rates in competitions/awards Student

Employment and Investment Incentive scheme GEDI Global Entrepreneurship Development Index GEM Global Entrepreneurship Monitor HEA Higher education Authority HEI Higher education institutions HBAP Halo Business

Foreign Direct Investment FET Further Education and Training FH2020 Food Harvest 2020 GEDI Global Entrepreneurship Development Index GEM Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

The GEM is the largest ongoing global study of entrepreneurial dynamics in the world, measures multiple phases on entrepreneurship, sponsored by Babson College (USA

Monitor (GEM) estimated that 388 million entrepreneurs were engaged actively in starting and running new businesses in 2011 around the globe,

126 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, â€oe2011 GEM Global Report. â€ It should be noted that the GEM surveys entrepreneurs

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. â€oe2011 GEM Global Report. â€ Babson Park, Mass: Babson College 2011 www. gemconsortium. org/about. aspx?

Guaranteed Electronic Market (GEM), a web-based market for people to exchange time and loans of products.

Andalusiaâ€ s entrepreneurship level was assessed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM in 2006. The GEM highlights some of the most pertinent entrepreneurship features of the region

ï Highest scoring aspects: access to physical infrastructure, promotion of growth, government programmes, and commercial/services infrastructure

A key issue addressed in the GEM is the entrepreneurship potential or, more specifically, whether

out of 17 regions) by the GEM. This appears to bear out a perception that the inhabitants of Andalusia are not the most entrepreneurial.

the GEM indicated that some 270 000 Andalusian people plan to become entrepreneurs in due course; the main reason being a desire to gain economic

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, the density of enterprises was approaching the national level. The same report also suggested that the population of the region has a fairly high level of

GEM, 2006) call for a greater focus on providing opportunities for people to establish their own businesses though self employment or creation of firms.

to thank Dr. Yancy Vaillant for his contribution with the GEM database. My gratitude is extended also to Dr. Joaquin Vergã s and Dr. Diego Prior;

9 Survey from GEM database 9 Ordinal regression and Logit regressions Key findings 9 There is a positive effect of

2). Then, in essay 3, we used the GEM adult population survey. The innovativeness construct is part of the GEM-available information

and its dimensions refer to the poise of an organization to develop creative or novel internal solutions or external offerings

GEM survey is the same. In our questionnaire this concept is captured rather well via the tendency to engage in and support new ideas generation, novelty, experimentation

Equally, in GEM survey the questions concerning innovativeness indicate the degrees of effort by the firm in an attempt for potential

Based on the Spanish GEM dataset, our study investigates the mutual effects between innovativeness and exports.

Monitor (GEM) by considering the adult population survey for the years 2007 and 2008. GEM is a research program,

initiated in 1998 and it provides the required fundamental knowledge by assembling relevant harmonized data on an annual basis

GEM-available information and its dimensions refer to the poise of an organization to develop creative or novel internal solutions

Considering the available information in the GEM database, we used it in two different steps:

Golovko, 2011) reported in year of the GEM survey Firm age We measured firm age as the number of years that the firm has been operating (Caldera

evidence from GEM data. Small Business Economics, 24,335 -350 Yamada, K. and Eshima, Y. 2009.

Li, D.-Y.,Z. Ya-Qing (2006), Cluster Competitiveness and Strategy Based on Modified GEM Model

The GEM entrepreneurship survey found that the level of early stage entrepreneurship within the South East (in 2008) was compared relatively high to other regions in Ireland.

The GEM 2008 findings are reflected in EI data with respect to the emergence of high potential start-ups from the region.

among men, 15.5 percent (GEM Entrepreneurship in Ireland, 2008 20 EI also launched a new format for the Enterprise Platform Programme in early 2012, to

according to GEM research. However, start-ups typically remain small and focused on the domestic market. The performance of the region in terms of HPSUS is about half of

The GEM entrepreneurship report contains some positive indicators for the Southeast Region Of particular note is that the region generates the highest rate of early stage

regions (Ahmed and Retzloff 1995, Huang et al. 2002, GEM 1999, Stringer 2000 Castrogiovanni 1996, Monk 2000, Ross 1996, NUTEK 2004.

GEM. (1999. Global entrepreneurship monitor: National entrepreneurship assessmentâ€ United states of america. Kansas city, Missouri: Kauffman Centre for Entrepreneurial

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor September 2012 Annual Employment Survey 2011 Forfã¡

-tor (GEM) LÃ¤nderbericht Deutschland. Hannover/Nuremburg Policies for high-growth innovative SMES v1. 6

Monitor (GEM) UK project to estimate the percentage of social entrepreneurs in UK society using population survey data.

The GEM report found that 1. 2 million people, which corresponds to 3. 2%of the working-age UK population,

as underlined by the GEM symposium in September 2009 It is important to recognise that successful social innovation requires a range of actors

GEM United kingdom (2006), â€oesocial Entrepreneurshipâ€, report Goldenberg, M.,et al. 2009), â€oesocial Innovation in Canada: An Updateâ€, Canadian Policy Research

GEM 2006 â€oesocial entrepreneurship is any attempt at new social enterprise activity or new enterprise creation such

Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2003 global report. Wellesley: Babson/London Business school/Kauffman Foundation Reynolds, PD, & White, SB.

Guaranteed Electronic Market (GEM), a web-based market for people to exchange time and loans of products.

Game Engine Modelling (GEM) was born, i e. to apply game engine components and architecture to machine simulation.

-up-skills, GEM Consortium (2013), Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 15. Diedrichs, E. 2013), Do SMES lose their appetite for innovation during the economic crisis?

gas, coal, and precious stones. The data used cover the years 2009 through 2013. Further information on these data can be

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