Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
Entrepreneurship is an essential driver of societal health and wealth. It is also a formidable engine of economic growth. It promotes the essential innovation required not only to exploit new opportunities, promote productivity, and create employment, but to also address some of society’s greatest challenges. Governments and other stakeholders will increasingly need hard, robust and credible data to make key decisions that stimulate sustainable forms of entrepreneurship and promote healthy entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide. During its 26 years of existence, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) has repeatedly contributed to such efforts. For example, following the great recession of 2008, GEM’s research provided policymakers with valuable insights on how to best foster entrepreneurship to propel growth and prosperity once again.
GEM carries out survey-based research on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship ecosystems around the world. GEM is a networked consortium of national country teams primarily associated with top academic institutions. GEM is the only global research source that collects data on entrepreneurship directly from individual entrepreneurs.
GEM’s primary focus is on the study of three areas:
- To measure differences in the level of entrepreneurial activity between countries
- To uncover factors leading to appropriate levels of entrepreneurship
- To suggest policies that may enhance the national level of entrepreneurial activity.
In numbers, GEM represents:
• 26 years of annual data, allowing longitudinal analysis in and across geographies on multiple levels;
• Up to 170,000+ interviews annually with experts and adult populations including entrepreneurs of all ages;
• Data from 120 economies across five continents;
• Collaboration with over 370+ specialists in entrepreneurship research;
• Involvement of some 150+ academic and research institutions;
• Support from more than 150+ funding institutions
