We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship relative to the U.S. Once we account for Europe’s strong performance in technological innovation, an …

This policy brief was produced by the OECD and the European Commission on sustaining entrepreneurship activities by …

-employed and informal entrepreneurs, which together comprise what we define as “informal entrepreneurship”. The policy brief … provides estimates of the size of the informal economy and informal entrepreneurship in the EU, investigates its main causes …

to its euro and refugee crises, Europe is suffering from an entrepreneurship crisis. Entrepreneurs are increasingly older … crisis. Demographic changes and institutional shortcomings are thus at the core of the entrepreneurship crisis in Europe …The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the …