Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, 1996-2011

1996 Index

Advances in geocomputation (1996-2011)

1. What is geocomputation? The first international conference on 'Geocomputation', hosted by the School of Geography at the University of Leeds in 1996, launched a new research agenda in geographical analysis and modelling (Openshaw & Abrahart, 1996): ''The art and science of solving complex spatial problems with computers'' (GeoComputation, 2012). The interest generated in this field was estab...

Entrepreneurial Activity in Equilibrium ∗

This paper compares the financing of new ventures in start-ups (entrepreneurship) and in established firms (intrapreneurship). Intrapreneurship allows established firms to use information on failed intrapreneurs to redeploy them into other jobs. Instead, failed entrepreneurs must seek other jobs in an imperfectly informed external labor market. While this is ex-post inefficient, it provides ent...

Correlation of Income Inequality and Entrepreneurial Activity

The fact of growth of inequality in distribution of income both inside the national economies and between the countries is confirmed by many empirical studies. In particular, these are annual reports of the World Bank, UNIDO and European Commission. The growth of inequality in distribution of income causes social tension inside the countries and promotes conflicts between the countries. Entrepr...

Understanding the Entrepreneur: An Index of Entrepreneurial Success

A measure of entrepreneur success is important to identify current and future successful ventures, to further our understanding of the entrepreneurial process and to guide public policies to improve the success rate of start-ups. In this paper we propose an index of entrepreneur success that accommodates multiple inputs and outputs, that is predicated on inputs and that mitigates the impact of ...