Europe remains challenged to develop its high-growth entrepreneurs. According to the recent GEM Global report on High Growth Entrepreneurship, Europe in the main lags behind North America, Oceania, and China in terms of high-expectation entrepreneurship (defined as the prevalence of nascent and new entrepreneurs who expect to create 20 or more jobs in 5 years’ time). Broadly speaking, high-growth entrepreneurs are only half as numerous in Europe as they are in the US and in China.
Subsequently a select group of leaders in European academia, industry and policy met to discuss the fundamental problem: How to encourage more high-growth entrepreneurs in Europe? These are men and women driven, not merely to seek self-employment, but to create world-class companies in technology, biopharma and other R&D intensive fields. Read more in the report on this roundtable discussion, which outlines the dilemma facing policy-makers.
