National Entrepreneurship Observatory

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor UK Research & Policy Seminar, May 15-16th Park Plaza Hotel, Cardiff

15th May 2008 - 21:51:00

The GEM team, in association with BERR and the Welsh Assembly Government, is holding the first UK research event in Cardiff on May 15th-16th 2008.

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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research consortium has been measuring entrepreneurial activity of working age adults across a wide range of countries in a comparable way since 1998. 

As part of this project, GEM UK is the largest national study of entrepreneurial activity in the world, and has grown from a survey of 1,000 adults in 1998 to 42,713 adults aged 18-64 in 2007. This has produced a dataset without equal in terms of the potential to examine different facets of entrepreneurial attitudes, intentions and activity at a national and regional level within the UK.

The GEM team, in association with BERR and the Welsh Assembly Government, is holding the first UK research event in Cardiff on May 15th-16th 2008.

The aim of this event is to discuss some of the key findings that are emerging from the GEM data and to examine their significance for the development of regional and national enterprise policies. It will also look to establish a research agenda for the use of GEM data during the next few years and how academics and policymakers can work together to maximise the opportunities emerging from the research.

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Breakfast Launch of the GEM Report for Wales 2007

19th Mar 2008 - 05:03:00

The launch of the GEM Report for Wales 2007 will take place on Tuesday 18th March at The Hilton Hotel, Cardiff, 7:30-10:30am

This year’s report is the most detailed to date and will give not only an update on entrepreneurial activity in Wales but will also examine specific key issues such as family business, serial and portfolio entrepreneurs, business angel activity, home-based entrepreneurship and Welsh language enterprise.

A full copy of the report will be available at the launch with a downloadable copy available on this site shortly after.

If you require further details of this launch please contact Tracy Wheeler on 01443 483572

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