Abstract:
In 2015, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study completes 17 years of the journey to create knowledge
on entrepreneurship around the world. The study has a noble mission to generate globally comparative data to
understand the entrepreneurial activity. This would help identify factors determining national levels of entrepreneurial
activity, as well as policies aimed at enhancing entrepreneurial activity. It measures entrepreneurship through surveys
and interviews of field experts conducted by the teams in the respective countries. The GEM survey generates a
variety of relevant primary information on different aspects of entrepreneurship and provides harmonised measures
about individuals’ attributes and their activities in different phases of venturing (from nascent to start-up, established
business, and discontinuation). This 2015 GEM report covers results based on 60 economies completing the Adult
Population Survey (APS) and 62 economies completing the National Expert Survey (NES). The present report provides
insights into entrepreneurial activities in India. The GEM India study was conducted using a well-established GEM
research methodology that is consistent across all participating countries, thus enabling cross-country comparison.
The APS was conducted among 3,413 samples and provides information regarding the level of entrepreneurial
activity in the country based on the national framework conditions, whereas the NES was conducted on 72 national
experts with an average age of 41 years. The NES focuses on entrepreneurial start-up environment in India with
regard to nine entrepreneurial framework conditions (EFCs).
