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The Danish Entrepreneurship Index Istanbul, 2007. Anders Hoffmann, Ph.D. Creative Director, FORA Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, Division for Research and Analysis. Political motivation. The Danish Government’s Political Platform
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The Danish EntrepreneurshipIndexIstanbul, 2007 Anders Hoffmann, Ph.D. Creative Director, FORA Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, Division for Research and Analysis
Political motivation The Danish Government’s Political Platform • The Government will draw up an ambitious, holistic and multi-year strategy to make Denmark a leading growth, knowledge and entrepreneurial society • Our goal is for Denmark, by 2015, to be one of the societies in the world where most growth enterprises are launched
Analytical approach Knowledge Statistics FORA Policy
Entrepreneurship is a process Exit 25% Eurostat General population Want-to-be 30% Entry 1% Survival 70% Growth 5% GEM ICE
Comparing Performance- Creating New Firms EUROSTAT Employee-firms
Identifying key policy areas - Methodology • The framework conditions for entrepreneurship are defined and quantified • The empirical links between the indicators measuring the framework conditions and the indicators measuring high growth are tested • Identify key policy areas for enhancing entrepreneurship performance based on regression and comparative techniques
Identifying key policy areas for enhancing entrepreneurship performance
Distance between Denmark and the top countries -80 -70 -60 -50 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 Incentives Income taxes Business taxes Bankruptcy Administrative burdens - start Administrative burdens - growth Labour market regulation
Change T4 Change DK–T4 Change DK - 10 0 10 - 10 0 10 - 10 0 10 Incentives Income taxes Business taxes Bankruptcy Administrative burdens - start Administrative burdens - growth Labour market regulation
Conclusions • We have identified Denmark’s main policy challenge – creating more high-growth firms. • We have identified 4 critical policy areas for Denmark – entrepreneurship education, taxes, entrepreneurship infrastructure and bankruptcy legislation. Detailed policy analysis is possible using a combination of data and knowledge!
Contact information • AH@ebst.dk • www.foranet.dk • http://ice.foranet.dk Without data you are just another guy with an opinion!