National Entrepreneurship Observatory

Mid Wales Regional Report 2005

The National Entrepreneurship Observatory has produced an assessment of activity in Mid Wales.

North Wales Regional Report 2005

Following on from the first regional report, the National Entrepreneurship Observatory has produced an assessment of activity in North Wales, which we hope you find both interesting and informative.

South East Wales Regional Report 2005

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is the worlds’ largest study of entrepreneurship and Wales has taken part in GEM since 2000. The index of entrepreneurial activity provides one of the key benchmarks of enterprise and is one of the main indicators of economic development for the Welsh Assembly Government.

As part of a major expansion of our analysis of entrepreneurship in Wales, the National Entrepreneurship Observatory has produced a series of regional assessments of entrepreneurial activity, the first of which is our assessment of activity in South-East Wales, which we hope you find both interesting and informative.

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2005 Wales Executive Report

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2004 Wales Executive Report

This is the sixth annual GEM cross-national assessment of entrepreneurial activity and the project has expanded from 10 countries in 1999 to 35 in 2004.The 2004 study represents a total labour force of 566 million, with GEM estimating that 73 million adults are entrepreneurially active.Total entrepreneurial activity (TEA) varied from a low of 1.5 per cent to a high of 40 per cent of working age adults, and the average level of entrepreneurial activity was 9.3 per cent (or one adult in eleven).