Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2013

ZoltanJ. Ács, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science and University Professor, School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, US, László Szerb, University Professor and Director, Department of Business and Management Studies, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Hungary and Erkko Autio, Chair in Technology Venturing and Entrepreneurship and Director, Doctoral Programme, Imperial College London Business School, UK

The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the authors have created an index that offers a measure of the quality of the business formation process in 118 of the most important countries in the world.

Acclaim for the 2011 edition:

‘The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index . . . focuses on high-growth companies. It tries to measure the ambition of entrepreneurs as well as the prevalence of start-ups. It presents its results in ways that are designed to capture the attention of policymakers. It produces a ranking of 71 countries (for all their faults, nothing makes a politician jump like a league table). It also identifies bottlenecks that prevent countries from doing better. The index concludes that development and enterprise are correlated.’
– The Economist