1. Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme Highlights Previews EISG Paris November

3. EIP Definitions
Entrepreneurs: those persons (business owners) who seek to generate value, through the creation or expansion of economic activity, by identifying and exploiting new products, processes or markets.
Entrepreneurial activity: the enterprising human action in pursuit of the generation of value, through the creation or expansion of economic activity, by identifying and exploiting new products, processes or markets.
Entrepreneurship is the phenomenon associated with entrepreneurial activity.

4. Some Important Principles
Entrepreneur vs. Entrepreneurship
Not just small or young firms
Not all firms are entrepreneurial
They are doing something “new”
Some entrepreneurs fail
“Value” can be defined in different ways

5. A Framework for Indicators

6. Core Indicators

7. Enterprise Birth Rate (Not fully comparable)

8. Employer Firm Birth Rates

9. Employer Firms: Births, Deaths, Churn

10. Employer Firm Birth Rate by Sector

11. Employer Firm Death Rate by Sector

12. High Growth Over 3 Years

13. Business Population

14. Business Population Changes by Size Class

15. Proportion of 3 and 5 year old Firms
1/ The 1st one contains Eurostat data for proportion of 3-year and 5-year old firms
2/ the 2nd one (below the 1st one) contains estimates for Canada and US for proportion of 2-year and 5-year old firms, based on the number of employer birth in y-2 (resp y-5), the 2-year (resp. 5-year) survival rate in y-2 (resp. y-5) and the total firm population in y.

16. Proportion of Young Employer Firms, USA and Canada

17. Export Performance

18. Export Performance – Outside EU

28. Leading Indicators of Entrepreneurship
Developing Administrative and LFS-based measures
Timely, yet based on a comprehensive register or a large sample

29. “Birth Rates” from LFS Data
UK self-employed “firm” births (%)

30. Survival rates of self-employed “firms”