Global Entrepreneurship Monitor : Start-up enterprises in worldwide comparison. Country report Germany 2011. Special topic: Comparison between German regions

Abstract

"The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is an international research programme that was initiated at the end of the 1990s. The 12th GEM Country Report for Germany describes and explains start-up activities in Germany in 2011. It compares findings with those of the other 54 countries participating in the GEM in 2011 and with data from previous years. The special-focus topic analyses regional differences in start-up activities and attitudes. The GEM Country Report for Germany 2011 gives answers to the following questions: - How do start-up activities here differ from those in other countries? - In which start-up-related framework conditions (e.g. financing, support programmes, training) does Germany exhibit strengths and/or weaknesses? - In which regions of Germany are start-up companies formed particularly often and how has the spatial pattern of start-up activities, attitudes and abilities changed over time? - What economic and start-up-policy-related recommendations can be deduced from these results? The data base of the GEM in Germany consists of a representative sample of 4,260 telephone interviews undertaken in the early summer of 2011. These were complemented by 43 expert interviews. The basis of the international comparison are data from 55 countries with information on 155,000 citizens in the GEM year 2011 along with 1,852 expert interviews from 49 countries. For most of the indicators, Germany is compared to 22 other innovation-based economies." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku)

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Brixy, U., Sternberg, R. & Vorderwülbecke, A. (2012): Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Unternehmensgründungen im weltweiten Vergleich. Länderbericht Deutschland 2011. Sonderthema: Vergleich deutscher Regionen. (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Länderbericht Deutschland 12), Hannover, 47 p.