ACE research briefing paper 011: GEM - Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Interim 2015/16 Australian National Report

The 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study in brief: * GEM is the world’s largest study of entrepreneurship. * In 2015, GEM was conducted in 60 economies. * GEM interviewed over 170,000 adults globally, including 2,000 in Australia. * GEM is different from other studies in that by surveying the adult population it identifies entrepreneurs at the very earliest stages of new business creation. * GEM measures annually the levels and characteristics of entrepreneurial activity, social attitudes, aspirations and framework conditions for entrepreneurship in each economy. * The GEM study has been conducted annually since 1999 and has collected data from across 100 countries, with over 2.4 million observations