GEN’s Research Library

The GEN Research Library is a directory that allows researchers, policymakers and ESOs easy access to the most relevant entrepreneurship research knowledge and insight. The resources include the latest research strategies, frameworks, reports, data sets, and more.

 

France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Netherlands, Romania, Rwanda
Refugee entrepreneurship survey 2023

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The survey presented in this report examines the aspects of Refugee Entrepreneurship Initiatives (REIs) that fulfill two important criteria; 1) they are commonly monitored and reported by REI…

Advancing refugee entrepreneurship: Guidelines for the private sector, governments, and the development community

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This report analyses refugee entrepreneurship, its role in providing jobs for refugees and host communities, and how business, governments, and development partners can support it.

Refugee-Related Investment

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An analysis of the state of investment in refugee-related enterprises, highlighting key challenges being faced and offering recommendations to guide future efforts in evolving the field of refugee-…

Australia
Accelerating NSW: the impact of coworking spaces, accelerators, incubators, and startup hubs

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Accelerating NSW is the first comprehensive mapping of all NSW’s CAISH entities, drawing on 64 in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and CAISH managers and featuring 27 CAISH case studies. The…

Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs: Removing Barriers (2023 Update)

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The report, Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs: Removing Barriers (2023), updates the data describing the national capital access and entrepreneurial support landscape that was originally…

The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2023

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The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2023 (GSER 2023) is a comprehensive analysis of the current state of startup ecosystems worldwide. Now in its 11th year, the GSER provides insights into the world’…

Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2023

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The Global Startup Ecosystem Index by StartupBlink has been updated annually since 2017 and ranks the startup ecosystems of 1000 cities and 1000 countries. 

United Kingdom
Disability and small business report

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This report represents the voice of the entrepreneur, based on interviews and surveys with over 500 disabled entrepreneurs. It includes the findings from this research and recommendations to all…

Supporting persons with disabilities in entrepreneurship

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This policy brief, prepared by the OECD and European Commission, explores the potential of entrepreneurship policy to support the labour market participation of people with disabilities. Disabilities…

Framework for the evaluation of SME and entrepreneurship policies and programmes 2023

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This publication issues OECD guidance on how governments can promote reliable SME and entrepreneurship policy evaluation. It emphasises practices including using control groups, setting clear policy…

Rwanda, Kenya
The power of nurturing refugee businesses

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This report is the culmination of a two-year independent evaluation of Inkomoko’s business support and loan’s initiative. Founded in and around Rwandan refugee camps in 2012, Inkomoko offers business…

United Kingdom
Incubation nation: The acceleration of UK startup support

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This study examines the state of accelerators, incubators and related startup support organisations in the UK. It is intended to help entrepreneurs, programme managers and policymakers understand…

The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2022

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The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2022 (GSER 2022) is a comprehensive analysis of the state of startup ecosystems worldwide.

The multi-dimensional impacts of business accelerators: What does the research tell us?

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Practitioners and academic researchers studying business accelerators have produced a substantial number of studies on accelerators. The online scholastic archive Social Science Research Network (…

Private actors in policy processes. entrepreneurs, edupreneurs and policyneurs

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As the privatisation of the public sector has grown rapidly in Sweden in the last decade, private companies have become an imperative part of education. Private companies sell and deliver consultancy…

Be the Business evaluation framework

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This framework is intended to assist key stakeholders of BtB, senior leadership, programme teams and delivery bodies to understand the approach BtB takes towards evaluation and what standards are…

Fostering collaboration across entrepreneurial ecosystems: Guide to mapping, action plan design and peer learning for regions

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Launched in December 2018, the EU project ‘Fostering collaboration through mapping, analysing, and interlinking of European Entrepreneurial Regions’ has the objective of strengthening the impact of…

Accelerating women entrepreneurs: A handbook for practitioners

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This is an interactive resource designed to equip you with the knowledge and strategies required to meet the needs of women entrepreneurs. This handbook can be applied in the context of a women-only…

The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021

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The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021 (GSER 2021) is a comprehensive analysis of the state of startup ecosystems worldwide.

Ecosystem health check

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The Ecosystem Health Toolkit is a self-serving tool that includes a self-serving online KPI dashboard to be filled by local ecosystem professionals as well as an extensive user guide including two…