The Relationship between Search Engines and Entrepreneurship Development: A Granger-VECM Approach

The decision to set-up a business as sole proprietor—also individual entrepreneur or trader—is consequential one for every nascent entrepreneur. Sole proprietorship businesses have remained the most popular structure in many countries, including United States, Kingdom, and Russia, are vital sustainable development of countries regions. In this research, we developed model investigate if increased online interest proprietorships led creation new four regions Russia. Search engine data were retrieved from Russia’s search engine, Yandex, whereas on newly registered entrepreneurship Federal Tax Service. Our was comprised range statistical methods, augmented Dickey–Fuller unit root test, Johansen cointegration Granger causality Wald vector error correction model. results revealed unidirectional causal relationship between established businesses. This means that entrepreneurship, measured through data, influenced research provides pioneering empirical investigation topic post-Soviet states, its main contribution includes introducing key tool assessing entrepreneurial intention.