1 Family-Sponsored Ventures The Entrepreneurial Advantage Of Nations: First Annual Global Entrepreneurship Symposium United Nations Headquarters

• Measure differences in the level of entrepreneurial activity between countries. • Probe for a systematic relationship between entrepreneurship and national economic growth. • Uncover factors that lead to higher level so of entrepreneurship. • Suggest policies that may enhance the national level of entrepreneurial activity. Data were assembled for each participating country from four basic sources: 1) surveys of over a hundred thousand adults; 2) in-depth interviews with almost a thousand national experts on entrepreneurship; 3) standardized questionnaires completed by the national experts, and 4) a wide selection of standardized national data from such sources as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations and the like. The 37 countries participating in 2002 provides a truly global assessment of these issues