individuals with experience or interest in entrepreneurship
Method of interview
Online survey
Supplementary notes
* The conditions were evaluated on a scale ranging from 1 to 5, with 1 for very unfavorable; 2 for somewhat unfavorable; 3 for neutral; 4 for somewhat favorable; 5 for very favorable.
The three phases of the life cycle of an innovation driven entrepreneurial venture – stand up, start up and scale up - are defined by the report in the following manner:
Stand up – Promoting the attitudes and skills required to mobilize Europeans with both the desire and the ability to create scalable entrepreneurial ventures.
Start up – Gathering the resources to start a business, with a particular focus on access to capital for entrepreneurs across the European Union.
Scale up – Enabling ventures to scale, with a particular focus on collaborations that simultaneously improve the innovation capacity of all partners to create growth and jobs across the region.
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Entrepreneurship conditions in in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) 2014
This statistic presents an assessment of conditions of entrepreneurial life cycle phases - stand up, start up and scale up - in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) as of 2014. With an average score of *** (5.0 being the most positive), the conditions were perceived to be best for the start up phase.
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