Entrepreneurship Data, Databases, Datasets for Academic Research
The Eurostat Factors of Business Success survey was carried out by 13 Member States (CZ, DK, EE, FR, IT, LV, LT, LU, AT, PT, SI, SK and SE) and the Acceding Countries (BG and RO) during 2005-2006. The objective of… Read more →
“The National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) database provides longitudinal data on various dynamics of the U.S. economy that include establishment job creation and destruction, sales growth performance, survivability of business startups, mobility patterns, changes in primary markets, corporate affiliations that highlight… Read more →
“The Comparative Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project (CIEP) survey of over 1,200 Colombian, Dominican, and Salvadoran family heads is the first to explicitly measure the extent of economic, political, and socio-cultural transnationalism among immigrants and to develop predictive models of these activities…. Read more →
Crunchbase is a potentially useful source of information for research in entrepreneurship. “The platform for finding business information about private and public companies, including investments and funding information, founding members and individuals in leadership positions, mergers and acquisitions, news, etc…. Read more →
The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) is a non-profit organization set up “to educate, promote and inspire professionals to support the development of academic research that changes the world and drives innovation forward. The AUTM community is comprised of… Read more →
The Dow Jones private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) databases enable investment decision-making by providing “proprietary news, analysis, data and newsmaker events that bring global private equity and venture capital trends into context”. Although designed for industry practitioners, the… Read more →
SESTAT – the Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System – is a “source of longitudinal information on the education and employment of the college-educated U.S. science and engineering workforce”. The data is collected through biennial surveys and uses information on… Read more →
The Dealogic platform and database of startup M&A and IPO activity is a potentially useful resource for academic scholars of entrepreneurship. It contains validated and reconciled data for hundreds of thousands of mergers, acquisitions, and initial public offerings. Of course,… Read more →
“The National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary investigation of patterns, predictors, and consequences of midlife development in the areas of physical health, psychological well-being, and social responsibility.” The data captured in the… Read more →
The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurship was “an early indicator for entrepreneurship in the United States, used by entrepreneurs and policymakers, from the federal to state and local levels. It tracked one of the earliest measures of business creation: when and… Read more →
The Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) is a panel study of “4,928 businesses founded in 2004 and tracked over their early years of operation, through 2011. KFS focuses on the nature of new business formation activity; characteristics of the strategy, offerings,… Read more →
“Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) provides annual measures of business dynamics (such as job creation and destruction, establishment births and deaths, and firm startups and shutdowns) for the economy and aggregated by establishment and firm characteristics. These measures are available for… Read more →