Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM Global)
Examining entrepreneurship all over the world
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a major survey-based study of entrepreneurial activity, of which GEM UK is a part. Over 60 countries have participated to date; 44 countries.are participating in 2008.
Founded in 1999 as a not-for-profit international research consortium, GEM set out with two objectives:
1. To gather high quality international research evidence on entrepreneurial activity.
2. To make these findings readily available to as many people as possible.
Before GEM, conventional economic research had focused almost entirely on the competitiveness of nations. GEM takes a different approach, seeking to answer questions such as:
- how much entrepreneurial activity is there in the world?
- why are some countries more entrepreneurial than others?
- what can governments do to promote and facilitate entrepreneurial activity?
