Purpose Small and emerging business failure rates are high for numerous reasons. Government regulation has been cited … as a contributing factor, yet literature documenting the actual effects of government regulation on small business is … dairy regulation and performs a case study on a small business, The White Moustache (TWM). The case study traces the burdens …

Although institutional reforms are necessary to increase rates of entrepreneurship in European countries, we argue that … strategies are appropriate to promote entrepreneurship and economic growth in European countries in different clusters. …

burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self-employment. Europe has a higher self-employment rate than the United … States and East Asia. At the same time, Europe has a lower entrepreneurship rate than competitor regions. Europe … underperforms in entrepreneurship despite having advantages such as a skilled labour force, good infrastructure, large markets and …

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 …

) regulation, which refers to compliance requirements and regulatory-associated fees; 3) trade and market access; and 4) consumer …