Rob:
Very good that you brought to our attention the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. It is a great source to follow up business starts at national and states level. I always use it when I need national information. The difference with the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor is that GEM focuses on the dynamics of entrepreneurship in countries around the world.
I have one concern about your Kaufman Index: its definition of "Entrepreneurial Activity" as "the percentage of the population of non-business owning adults who start a business each month". I think it is limited and static to analyze such a dynamic field as entrepreneurship.
Here are a couple of examples: in your Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity State Report 2005, I missed to see a more profound assessment why <st1:state w:st="on">Vermont</st1:state> has the highest proportion of business starts and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Delaware</st1:state></st1:place> has the lowest. In your Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity National Report 1996-2005 I would like to know why women showed a lower propensity than men to start business in this time interval. Or why immigrants in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> showed a notoriously higher propensity to start businesses than native-born. And overall why do you think that individuals with "less than high school" education (table 5) consistently show higher propensity to start businesses than individuals at higher educational levels? (In other words, is it possible to infer that "necessity" entrepreneurship is considerably higher than "opportunity" entrepreneurship in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>?) ... In any case I commend your efforts in the Index and Reports because they bring attention and open questions on the development of this important business field in the United States.
Maria-Teresa Lepeley
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Global Institute for Quality Education - GIQE - <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Fairlie [mailto:rfairlie@UCSC.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:23 AM
To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: [ENTREP] The Changing Face of Entrepreneurship
For another individual-owner based measure of
entrepreneurship somewhat similar to the GEM
measure take a look at the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity.
http://www.kauffman.org/items.cfm?itemID=704
Rob Fairlie
At 05:14 PM 2/7/2007, Maria-Teresa Lepeley wrote:
>Hello, Doan:
>
>I would suggest the source that Luiz provided in
>a previous post: GEM www.gemconsortium.org and
>in particular its Global Entrepreneurship
>Monitor 2004 Report on Women and
>Entrepreneurship You can download the document
>in this link http://www.gemconsortium.org/document.asp?id=478
>
>This study was conducted by The Center for Women
>in Entrepreneurship at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Babson</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place> and the
>London School of Business with the support of
>universities and organization in 34 countries
>that compiled and provided data from <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place> (3),
>Oceania (2), Africa (2), Middle East (2), <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
>(19), North America (2) and <st1:place w:st="on">South America</st1:place> (4).
>
>This has been a great discussion in our Division!
>
>Maria-Teresa Lepeley
>
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>From: <st1:personname w:st="on">DOAN WINKEL</st1:personname> [mailto:doanemil@MSN.COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:26 PM
>To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
>Subject: [ENTREP] The Changing Face of Entrepreneurship
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>Greetings -
>
>I am a brand new PhD student just venturing into the waters of academic
>research. I am beginning a theoretical paper that revolves around gender
>and diversity issues in entrepreneurship (not quite sure the exact
>direction, but am at least going to delve into those areas). Basically, at
>this point, I am interested in the differential entrepreneurial successes of
>men vs. women and of different races/ethnicities. I have found a multitude
>of books and articles in both these areas, but was wondering if anyone is
>aware of any studies that provide really complete and concise overviews?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Doan Winkel
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