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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)

European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)

COMPARATIVE STUDY

EMERGING FORMS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP [23 March 2011]

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/studies/tn1009034s/index.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/studies/tn1009034s/tn1009034s.htm

or

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/erm/tn1009034s/tn1009034s.pdf

[full-text, 69 pages]

Abstract:

The current policy and public debate on the overall topic of ‘entrepreneurship’ pays little

attention to more specific or emerging forms of entrepreneurship such as one-person enterprises

and self-employment, part-time entrepreneurs, parallel and serial entrepreneurs, and business

transfer and successions. This study examines the appearance of these distinct catgeories in

public and policy discussions across Europe and gives an overview of the availability of

quantitative and qualitative statistical information and of research on emerging forms of

entrepreneurship.This study notes that the category of one-person enterprises and selfemployment

is the one most often included in the debate, whereas the other forms of emerging

entrepreneurship receive less attention. However, across Europe growing attention is paid to all

these forms as drivers for growth and employment, and they are being recognised as flexible

forms that offer a transitional state between employment and business development.

Introduction

1. Emerging forms of entrepreneurship – working definitions

2. Public and policy discussion on emerging forms of entrepreneurship

3. An in-depth analysis of the content of the political discussion

4. Standardised structural data

5. Summary of the content of national research and studies, and of the

key issues in the EU debate

Bibliography

Annex of tables

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