Entrepreneurship Data Sources

Below we offer lists of research papers, policy reports, evaluations, frameworks, and guidance for each of the priority topics of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network. The lists are by no means exhaustive but aim to highlight the key research contributions that influence each research field.

This is a work in progress and will, in time, be transformed into a searchable research library. 

1. Ecosystem Mapping

• Frameworks, toolkits, and guidance
  • Guide for mapping the entrepreneurial ecosystem
    German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
  • ​​​​​​Developing entrepreneurial ecosystems for digital businesses and beyond : A diagnostic toolkit
    World Bank
  • Fostering collaboration across entrepreneurial ecosystems: Guide to mapping, action plan design and peer learning for regions
    European Commission
     
• Mapping exercises
  • Incubation nation: The acceleration of UK startup support
    Centre for Entrepreneurs
  • Business incubators and accelerators: The national picture
    UK Government

2. Ecosystem Performance

• Frameworks, toolkits, and guidance
  • Strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems: An interactive guide for development professionals
    German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
  • Ecosystem health check
    Swisscontact, Startup Heatmap Europe
  • Entrepreneurial ecosystem diagnostic toolkit
    Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
     
• Ecosystem analysis and rankings
  • The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2023
    Startup Genome and Global Entrepreneurship Network
  • Index of Dynamic Entrepreneurship
    PRODEM and Global Entrepreneurship Network
  • Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2023
    Startup Blink

3. Public Policy Evaluation

• Experimental innovation and growth policy: Why do we need it?
  Innovation Growth Lab
• Framework for the evaluation of SME and entrepreneurship policies and programmes 2023
  OECD
• Entrepreneurship policy framework and implementation guidance
  UNCTAD
• A guide to randomised controlled trials
  Innovation Growth Lab
• Introduction to randomized evaluations
  Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab
• Boosting experimental innovation policy in Europe: How innovation agencies are embracing randomised experimentation
  Innovation Growth Lab

4. Enterprise Support Organization (ESO) Performance

• Frameworks, toolkits, and guidance
  • How to fulfil the potential of business development services using SCALE
    Argidius Foundation
  • Guide to impact incubation and acceleration
    Frontier Incubators
  • Business support evaluation framework
    UK Government 
  • Be the Business evaluation framework
    Be the Business
     
• Research on the impact of ESOs
  • The multi-dimensional impacts of business accelerators: What does the research tell us?
    Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe & Oufaa Hmaddi
  • Do accelerators work? If so, how?
    Benjamin L Hallen, Susan Cohen, Christopher Bingham
  • Identifying and boosting “Gazelles”: Evidence from business accelerators
    Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, Santiago Reyes
  • The impact of business accelerators and incubators in the UK
    Jonathan Bone, Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, Christopher Haley, Henry Lahr
  • Accelerating NSW: the impact of coworking spaces, accelerators, incubators, and startup hubs
    NSW Innovation and Productivity Council
     
• ESO evaluations
  • The effects of business accelerators on venture performance: Evidence from Start-Up Chile
    Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, Michael Leatherbee

5. Inclusive entrepreneurship

• Refugee entrepreneurship
  • Frameworks, toolkits, and guidance
    • Advancing refugee entrepreneurship: Guidelines for the private sector, governments, and the development community
      World Bank
    • Policy brief on refugee entrepreneurship
      OECD
       
  • Policy reports 
    • Starting afresh: How entrepreneurship is transforming the lives of resettled refugees
      Centre for Entrepreneurs
    • Refugee-Related Investment
      World Bank
    • Mapping refugee & migrant entrepreneurship ecosystems in Europe
      The Human Safety Net
    • Accelerating and financing refugee ventures: Recent activity, trends, and avenues for future impact
      Betsy Alley
    • Seven steps to success: Enabling refugee entrepreneurs to flourish
      Open Political Economy Network
    • Global refugee entrepreneurship survey 2019
      Centre for Entrepreneurs
    • Refugee entrepreneurship survey 2023
      Loughborough University
       
  • Program evaluations
    • UK refugee entrepreneurship pilot: Independent academic evaluation
      Loughborough University
    • The power of nurturing refugee businesses
      Loughborough University
    • Ignite! From refugee to entrepreneur in Sydney in less than three years: Final evaluation report on the SSI Ignite small business start-ups program
      University of Technology Sydney
       
• Women entrepreneurship
  • Frameworks, toolkits, and guidance
    • Accelerating women entrepreneurs: A handbook for practitioners
      German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
    • Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration toolkit
      Frontier Incubators
       
  • Policy papers
    • The Alison Rose review of female entrepreneurship
      UK Government

Below we offer lists of resources of interest to those who produce and consume entrepreneurship research. It is meant to provide a curated sampling of the variety of sources of summaries, datasets, and studies. 

Key entrepreneurship research organizations

• World Bank
  • B-READY
• OECD
  • Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities
  • OECD Development Centre
• UNCTAD Enterprise Development
• Startup Genome
• Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
• StartupBlink

Country / ecosystem profiles: 

• World Bank entrepreneurship database
• Startup Genome ecosystem profiles
• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor country profiles
• StartupBlink startup map
• Dealroom ecosystem startup databases
• Crunchbase hubs
• OECD Data country profiles

Recent Entrepreneurship Research

• Entrepreneurship Working Group and Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network, Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Entrepreneurship Research Libraries

• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 
• IDEAS (The Research Papers in Economics Database)

Economic Databases & Related Sources

• World Bank Data
• NBER Datalinks
• FRED from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• American Economic Association Resources for Economists