Topic: National Factors Affecting Business Creation: A Global Assessment
Presenters:
Dr. Paul Reynolds (Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University)
Mr. Amr Gohar (President, Middle East Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (MCSBE)
Ms. Lois Stevenson (Visiting Research Fellow, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Cairo)
Dr. G. Dale Meyer (Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Colorado – Boulder)
Moderated by: Dr. Ayman El Tarabishy (Executive Director of ICSB)
New business creation is intimately associated with economic growth and adaptation and a major career option for many. Ten years after inception, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor [GEM] initiative has provided harmonized estimates of the prevalence of participation in the business creation process for 76 countries. The countries covered by the GEM initiative represent all major regions of the world: Eastern, Central and Western Europe, North America and Oceana, South America, developed and developing countries of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa.
In addition to detailed analysis of individuals active in business creation, it is now possible to consider the impact of country characteristics on cross-national differences in participation in the entrepreneurial process. The major national features considered in the analysis include measures of annual income (GDP per capita), recent growth in annual income, the age structure of the population, educational attainment among the adult population, the labor force participation by men and women, income equality, the origin of legal traditions, the ease of registering new firms, and traditional versus secular-rational and survival versus self-expression values. The resulting model is able to account for 88% of the variation in participation in business creation. There are numerous implications for national policies for promoting business creation.
In addition to the main presentation on business creation, the event will also feature a presentation by Dr. G. Dale Meyer on ‘Youth Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Innovation in the Middle East.’
PPT Presentations;
Dr. Paul Reynolds
- Topic: National Factors Affecting Business Creation: A Global Assessment (ppt)
- Please click here to view Dr. Reynolds' presentation summary (pdf)
Ms. Lois Stevenson
- Topic: Understanding Entrepreneurship in MENA: Where to go next (ppt)
- Please click here to view Ms. Stevenson's' presentation summary (pdf)
Dr. G. Dale Meyer
- Topic: What Do We Owe to Future Generations? (ppt)
- Please click here to view Dr. Meyer's' presentation summary (pdf)
Dr. Ayman El Tarabishy (moderator)
- About ICSB from the Executive Director (pdf)
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2008 DELL/ICSB International Small Business IT Survey
 
Global Competition - 2008
The second annual International Small Business IT Survey was conducted with more than
1,500 small business
owners and experts worldwide to better understand how small
businesses might thrive and excel through the innovative use of IT. To actively support
such small business IT excellence and leadership, Dell expanded its Small Business
Excellence Award program previously held in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. (in
partnership with the National Federation of Independent Business) to 12 countries. The
mission of the award is to identify small businesses worldwide that demonstrate the
innovative use of IT to better serve customers.
Please click here for 2008 Summary Report.
Small Business Perceptions of IT Innovation - 2008
To better understand key drivers behind these investments, business‐owners’ top IT pain points, and the value entrepreneurs worldwide place on IT, Dell and the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) collaborated on the second annual “International Small Business IT Survey.” Taking the pulse of 1,361 IT decision‐makers in companies of 100 employees or less from nine countries and opinions from 200 small‐business experts attending the 2008 World ICSB Conference, the two surveys examined small business perceptions and use of IT.
Please click here for the Survey Report.
International Small Business Technology Research
The State of Information Technology on Small Businesses World-Wide:
Listening to Entrepreneurs and
Experts - 2007
Information Technology (IT) encompasses various hardware and software that small
businesses use daily. IT influences their productivity which in turn, affects their
competitive position. A healthy competitive position typically yields success in business.
There is of-course, more to productivity and business success than technological
prowess. Still, the role technology plays in making small businesses viable competitors
should not be underestimated. Thus, the International Council for Small Business (ICSB)
and the DELL Inc. collaborated on a joint international Global Technology Study. We
asked small business owners in 12 countries around the world about the role of IT in
their business. We also asked consultants, researchers, educators, and government
officials who assist small businesses to help explain how IT plays a role in small
business productivity and success. This report gives the result of these studies. Overall,
we found that regardless of their locale, small business owners generally agreed on the
importance of IT to their operations, as well as on the problems and challenges it
presents. Moreover, we found that experts generally were in agreement with small
business owners. The details of these findings follow. (click here)
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