ACE research briefing paper 012: GEM - Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Interim 2016/17 Australian National Report

The 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study in brief: GEM is the world’s largest study of entrepreneurship. In 2016, GEM was conducted in 64 economies. GEM interviewed over 200,000 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 2.6 million observations