paper uses survey data from the 15 EU Member States and the US to investigate two aspects of entrepreneurial capacity …: latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the probability of a declared preference for self … perception of lack of available financial support in the latent entrepreneurship equation. …

and productivity improvements. This paper uses survey data from the 15 EU Member States and the US to establish the effect … of demographic and other variables on latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the … is the lack of explanatory power of the perception of lack of available financial support in the latent entrepreneurship …