Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity 1996-2004

1996 Index

Research Output of Croatian Universities from 1996 to 2004, Registered by the Science Citation Index-expanded

Our intention was to asses the research output of scientists working in “hard sciences” at six Croatian Universities (Dubrovnik, Osijek, Rijeka, Split, Zadar and Zagreb). The data could serve as the starting point for further follow up and in depth studies of the research performance at the Universities. This can be particularly relevant for the implementation of the Bologna Process in Croatia....

Entrepreneurial Activity in Equilibrium ∗

This paper compares the financing of new ventures in start-ups (entrepreneurship) and in established firms (intrapreneurship). Intrapreneurship allows established firms to use information on failed intrapreneurs to redeploy them into other jobs. Instead, failed entrepreneurs must seek other jobs in an imperfectly informed external labor market. While this is ex-post inefficient, it provides ent...

Correlation of Income Inequality and Entrepreneurial Activity

The fact of growth of inequality in distribution of income both inside the national economies and between the countries is confirmed by many empirical studies. In particular, these are annual reports of the World Bank, UNIDO and European Commission. The growth of inequality in distribution of income causes social tension inside the countries and promotes conflicts between the countries. Entrepr...

2004 Annual Index