In recent years entrepreneurship has become a buzzword that?s entered the mainstream. Politicians continuously cite its importance and the need to create more entrepreneurial societies, and newspapers and television programmes frequently create themes around successful entrepreneurs. But, the pursuit and development of policies related to entrepreneurship are often hampered by the limited, albeit growing, empirical information relating to entrepreneurship (its size, factors and benefits). Therefore, in the absence of definitions that capture the essence of entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship indicators that are internationally comparable, policy makers are left somewhat rudderless when it comes to developing policies, particularly when they relate to learning from international best-practice. These shortcomings and the growing importance of entrepreneurship in the policy domain have magnified the need for a sounder basis for internationally comparable indicators of entrepreneurship. This paper provides a framework that is intended to provide that sounder basis. It does so by adopting a holistic approach, and, so, by focusing on the: factors that impede or motivate entrepreneurship (determinants); measures that provide indicators of the state of entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial performance); and, outcomes (impacts) of that performance on the economy as a whole. Each of these three themes provides the overarching structure to the framework, using a standardised OECD definition of entrepreneurship, and, within each, we develop a suite of indicators that provide the basis for quantifiable information to be collected in an internationally comparable way for each of these themes. Cadre pour la presentation et la mesure de l'entrepreneuriat L’entrepreneuriat est devenu un terme incontournable ces dernieres annees, il est au coeur des preoccupations des decideurs politiques qui soulignent tres regulierement son importance et la necessite de creer des societes plus entrepreneuriales. De meme, journaux et emissions televisees montent frequemment des sujets autour d'entrepreneurs qui reussissent. Malgre cela, le developpement de politiques liees a entrepreneuriat sont souvent entraves par les limites, quoique regulierement repoussees, de l’information empirique disponible sur l?entrepreneuriat (sa taille, les facteurs l'encourageant et les avantages retires). Ainsi, l'absence de definition communement admise sur l’essence de l'entrepreneuriat et d'indicateurs comparables au niveau international, laisse les decideurs politiques sans leviers de commande pour developper leur politiques economiques et ce, de facon plus pregnante encore lorsqu'il s'agit d'etudier les meilleurs pratiques internationales. Ces imperfections, ajoutees a l’importance croissante de l’entrepreneuriat sur la scene politique, ont renforce le besoin de fondements plus solides au niveau international pour des indicateurs sur l'entrepreneuriat. Ce document apporte cette base solide en adoptant une approche holistique. Il rassemble les facteurs qui entravent ou encouragent l?entrepreneuriat (les determinants) ; les mesures evaluant l'etat de l'entrepreneuriat (les indicateurs de performance) ; et les resultats (l'impact economique). Ces trois themes structurent le cadre d'analyse et utilisent la definition standardisee de l'OCDE pour l'entrepreneuriat. Pour chacun de ces themes nous developpons une suite d'indicateurs, donnant ainsi une base d’information statistique a collecter comparable au niveau international.
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