Total Entrepreneurial Activity for 2004 = 5.1%

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World Average TEA 9.6
European Average TEA 5.4

Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands

Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands is considered to be of vital importance to the development of economic growth and employment and the productivity of the Dutch Private sector is attributable to the entry and departure of companies. In the Netherlands the number of annual business startups have almost doubled since 1987.

The most favorable aspects of the Dutch entrepreneurial climate are: the availability of financial capital, the positive attitude of young people to labor mobility, the access to physical infrastructure and the diminished barriers for entrepreneurship. The least favorable aspects are: transfer of knowledge from universities to new and small enterprises, the administrative barriers for business startups and the extent to which both the Dutch welfare state and the educational system provide encouragement for people to take initiative and be self-sufficient.

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The Netherlands GEM 2004 Report
The Netherlands GEM 2003 Report
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