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Global Entrepreneurship Capacity and Entrepreneurial Attitude Indexing Based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Dataset

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Globalization and Development

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The main purpose of this study is to introduce three new indexes. In order to investigate the attitude and the capacity of communities, the entrepreneurial attitude index and the entrepreneurship capacity index were theoretically generated. This study proposed a non-linear regression approach to discussing the relationship between these indexes. The allometric relationship, as the nonlinear and well-fitted model, demonstrated that the variations of the entrepreneurship capacity index are entrepreneurial attitude index by about 56%. Finally, the entrepreneurship attitude dispersion index, as the third index of this research, was extracted from the difference between the entrepreneurship capacity index and the entrepreneurial attitude index. By using the entrepreneurship attitude dispersion index and statistical methods, a ranking list of countries was developed, proving that entrepreneurial attitude dispersion index is able to improve the economic categorization of countries.

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  1. UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship, Paris, France

    Nezameddin Faghih

  2. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): GEM-Iran Office, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Ebrahim Bonyadi & Lida Sarreshtehdari

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Fig. 11
A scatter plot of entrepreneurial capacity versus entrepreneurial attitude for the observed and power for an innovation-driven economy. The line of power trends upward.

Scatter plot of entrepreneurial attitude versus capacity for Innovation-driven economy populations (Source: Authors’ own figure)

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Fig. 12
A scatter plot of entrepreneurial capacity versus entrepreneurial attitude for the observed and power for an efficiency driven economy. The line of power trends upward.

Scatter plot of entrepreneurial attitude versus capacity for Efficiency-driven economy populations (Source: Authors’ own figure)

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Fig. 13
A scatter plot of entrepreneurial capacity versus entrepreneurial attitude for the observed and power for a factor driven economy. The line of power trends upward.

Scatter plot of entrepreneurial attitude versus capacity for Factor-driven economy populations (Source: Authors’ own figure)

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Faghih, N., Bonyadi, E., Sarreshtehdari, L. (2019). Global Entrepreneurship Capacity and Entrepreneurial Attitude Indexing Based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Dataset. In: Faghih, N. (eds) Globalization and Development. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11766-5_2

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