destructive entrepreneurship. It is shown that the foundation of Baumol’s classificatory scheme is the restrictive concept of … first-best outcomes, and therefore it easily fails to appreciate the true impact of entrepreneurship in real world … circumstances characterized by suboptimal institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship …

We examine whether Europe has an “entrepreneurship deficit” compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …

entrepreneurship? We compile four hand-collected measures of high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship (VC-funded IPOs, self … entrepreneurship and the other relating to small business activity. Except for the World Bank measure of firm registration of limited … liability companies quantity-based measures tend to be inappropriate proxies for high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship …

the higher rates of entrepreneurship observed in common law countries. …