The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is an international comparative research project that seeks to benchmark the level of entrepreneurial activities across countries. GEM was initiated in 1999 by leading scholars from Babson College and the London Business School , with strong support from the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The program has expanded from ten countries in 1999, to 21 countries in 2000, 28 countries in 2001, 37 countries in 2002, 31 countries in 2003 and 34 countries in 2004 and 2005.
(link to list of countries participating in 2005)
NEC has carried out the Singapore country study for GEM since Singapore first began participating in GEM in 2000.
More information on the GEM programme may be found on the GEM consortium website at
www.gemconsortium.org.
