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National Entrepreneurship Observatory

27th Jul 2005

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2005 Wales Executive Report

Initiated in 1997 as a joint initiative between Babson College and London Business School, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) describes and analyses entrepreneurial activity across a large and growing range of nations. Through producing internationally comparable data on the “elusive concept of entrepreneurship”, the GEM study is unique as the only longitudinal study of entrepreneurship undertaken throughout the major nations of the World. Since its inception, the aim of the GEM study
has been to answer three fundamental questions:

27th Jul 2004

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).

27th Jul 2003

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2003 Wales Executive Report

This is the fourth year that Wales has taken part in the study, along with thirty-one other nations around the World.This year the UK co-ordinating team - based at London Business School - has also attracted significant interest and funding to conduct GEM-type analyses for many of the English Regional Developments Areas (RDA) and additional reports have been prepared for Northern Ireland and Scotland.The results we report below compare Wales to the whole of the UK - the latter benefiting from an amalgamated dataset of over 22,000 observations. This degree of scale contributes to far greater accuracy of the GEM findings this year and the statistical analysis is remarkably robust at this level. All national reports can be downloaded from the GEM website at http://www.gemconsortium.org. The primary data for the study of Wales was collected from an adult population survey of 2000 individuals, together with 36 interviews with Welsh experts on entrepreneurship.

27th Jul 2002

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2002 Wales Executive Report

This is the third year that Wales has taken part in the study, along with thirty-eight other nations around the World (including Scotland). In addition, London Business School also prepared a report for Northern Ireland in 2002 because a separate adult population survey was undertaken there.The results for the separate region of Northern Ireland are not reported as part of the calculations below, although theirs, along with all national reports, can be downloaded from the GEM website at http://www.gemconsortium.org.The primary data for the study of Wales was collected from an adult population survey of 2000 individuals, together with 36 interviews with Welsh experts on entrepreneurship.

27th Jul 2001

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2001 Wales Executive Report

This is the second year that Wales has taken part in the study, along with thirty other nations around the World including the USA, Russia, UK, Ireland and Scotland.The primary data for the study of Wales was collected from an adult population survey of 2015 individuals, together with 36 interviews with Welsh experts on entrepreneurship.

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National Entrepreneurship Observatory for Wales

Business School
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd, CF37 1DL

Centre for Advanced Studies
44-45 Park Place, Cathays Park,
Cardiff, CF10 3BB