Egypt Entrepreneurship Report
1658.24
KB, published on
19 October 2009
Egypt participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor research project for the first time in 2008. This national initiative, supported by the British University in Egypt (BUE), the Industrial Modernisation Centre (IMC) of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MIT), the Egyptian Junior Business Association (EJB) and the Middle East Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (MCSBE), positions Egypt on the global map of entrepreneurship and benchmarks its entrepreneurial performance against that in 42 other developed and developing economies. The 2008 GEM-Egypt report quantifies the rate of early-stage entrepreneurial activity in the adult population, investigates the socioeconomic characteristics of Egyptian entrepreneurs (compared to non-entrepreneurs), their motivations, some important aspects of their enterprise behaviour and the enterprise activity in which they are engaged, and the perceptions of the general population, entrepreneurs, and national experts regarding the environment for entrepreneurship in Egypt. This report establishes an important baseline for future monitoring of improvements in the entrepreneurial performance of the Egyptian economy.
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