Cambridge Centre for Business Research Survey of British and Japanese Entrepreneurs and their Businesses, 2000-2002

The dataset is a collection of survey records from two surveys, one in Great Britain and one in Japan conducted in 2000 and 2002 respectively. The surveys focused on the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of high technology businesses and their entrepreneurial behaviour.<br> <br> Its main objectives were: to enhance understanding of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship by identifying and comparing personal and attitudinal characteristics of CEOs in different socio-economic contexts; to explore the interplay of the widely-recognised entrepreneurial drive for independence on the one hand, and various forms of interdependence on the other; through studying the increasingly important high technology small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, to shed light on the processes of transformation of industrialised economies.<br>