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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Program: 2001 Progress Report
Abstract
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2001 involved a comparison of 29 countries that represented 30% of the world population. The presentation will review the differening patterns associated with those engaged in entrepreneurial activities to pursue business opportunities compared to those doing so out of necessity. The relationship of these two types of entrepreneurial activities to economic growth as well as factors affecting entrepreneruial activity will be reviewed. Implications for government policy will be addressed.
About the Speaker
Paul Reynolds is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College (Wellesley, Massachusetts) and at the London Business School (UK). He served as the director of the annual Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference for five years (1996-2000) and served as the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) for five years (1990-1995). Reynolds is now coordinator of the Entrepreneurial Research Consortium (ERC), an international collaboration of 33 university units, government agencies and foundations implementing national longitudinal studies of business start-ups in the U.S. and eight other countries. As coordinating principal investigator of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project, he coordinated 10 national teams for the 1999 analysis, 21 for GEM 2000, and 29 for GEM 2001 to analyze the contributions of the entrepreneurial sector to national economic growth. He also serves as consulting principal investigator to the Kauffman sponsored Regional Entrepreneurial Catalyst program, designed to establish the extent of regional variation in entrepreneurial activity within the U.S. and appropriate policy reactions.
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend the talk. As there are limited number of seats available, please register for the talk via email to
Shannen (cetsoosk@nus.edu.sg)
with your name, designation and company/institution
(and email add if via fax),
by 30 November 2001. Please forward this invitation to your friends and colleagues who may be interested. Admission is free
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