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
- Guide for mapping the entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Mapping exercises
- Incubation nation: The acceleration of UK startup support
Centre for Entrepreneurs - Business incubators and accelerators: The national picture
UK Government
- Incubation nation: The acceleration of UK startup support
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
- Strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems: An interactive guide for development professionals
- 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
- The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2023
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
- How to fulfil the potential of business development services using SCALE
- 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
- The multi-dimensional impacts of business accelerators: What does the research tell us?
- ESO evaluations
- The effects of business accelerators on venture performance: Evidence from Start-Up Chile
Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, Michael Leatherbee
- The effects of business accelerators on venture performance: Evidence from Start-Up Chile
5. Inclusive entrepreneurship
- Refugee entrepreneurship
- Frameworks, toolkits, and guidance
- 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
- Starting afresh: How entrepreneurship is transforming the lives of resettled refugees
- 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
- UK refugee entrepreneurship pilot: Independent academic evaluation
- 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
- Accelerating women entrepreneurs: A handbook for practitioners
- Policy papers
- The Alison Rose review of female entrepreneurship
UK Government
- The Alison Rose review of female entrepreneurship
- Frameworks, toolkits, and guidance
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
- OECD
- 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
Economic Databases & Related Sources