Framework conditions for firm creation and growth

This dataset takes into account a broad variety of framework conditions for the creation and growth of firms in the European Member States, including entrepreneurial culture, access to human capital, support initiatives for knowledge creation and networking, market conditions, availability of sufficient and appropriate finance, prevailing business regulations and the quality of the supporting infrastructure.

A set of two composite indicators - i.e. the Entrepreneurship and Scale-up Indices (ESIS) - have been constructed to facilitate the comparison across Member States. In addition, a set of sub-indicators used to compute the ESIS is included. The sub-indicators for each index includes: entrepreneurial culture, access to human capital, support initiatives for knowledge creation and networking, market conditions, availability of sufficient and appropriate finance, prevailing business regulations and the quality of supporting infrastructure. The reference year is 2016. All indicators are at the country level. Detailed description of the methodology of constructing the sub- and indicators can be found in the JRC report on the "Assessment of framework conditions for the creation and growth of firms in Europe" (https://doi.org/10.2791/2811).