This essay explains how and why entrepreneurship has made important contributions to economic and social life inmodern industrialized countries. The increased role of entrepreuneurship in general and small firms in particular has come with a number of benefits spanning a wide range of economic...

In the present paper we address the relationship between the extent of business ownership, or as we use interchangeably self-employent, and economic growth.

Entry and exit of firms is an item of major importance in economic policy. The purpose of this report is to investigate whether entry and exit of firms affects productivity. A model for total factor productivity is developed using a panel of regional data for the years 1988 up to and including 1996.

By stimulating entrepreneurship, the actual goal is especially to stimulate the people who will be successful after starting up their businesses. Considering the great variety within the group of (potential) entrepreneurs, there is need for specific insight in the factors that determine the...

The objective of this report is to synthesize strands of literature in order to link entrepreneurship to economic growth. This has been done by investigating the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth in the following fields: historical views on entrepreneurship,...