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New Economics Papers Entrepreneurship Where we stand and possible developments

New Economics Papers Entrepreneurship Where we stand and possible developments. Marcus DEJARDIN Founding Editor of nep-ent EUR, UCLouvain, FUNDP, FUSL. Outline. New Economics papers Entrepreneurship Where do we stand? - New Economics Papers - nep-ent

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New Economics Papers Entrepreneurship Where we stand and possible developments

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  1. New Economics PapersEntrepreneurshipWhere we stand and possible developments Marcus DEJARDIN Founding Editor of nep-ent EUR, UCLouvain, FUNDP, FUSL

  2. Outline • New Economics papers Entrepreneurship Where do we stand? - New Economics Papers - nep-ent • New Economics papers Entrepreneurship Possible developments

  3. Acknowledgments • Wilfred Mijnhardt, for the great discussion of last December, for his entrepreneurial answer in last February and for the organization of this meeting. • Thomas Krichel as the founder of RePEc and NEP and for being here with us. • Bernardo Bàtiz-Lazo, former General Editor of NEP, for his entrepreneurial answer about the nep-entrepreneurship project. • The community of NEP-editors, for support. • The RePEc and NEP staffs making nep-ent possible.

  4. New Economics papers • An announcement service filtering information on new additions to RePEc into edited reports. • The objective: to provide subscribers with up-to-date information about the research literature. • Today, there are 51813 subscriptions from 23610 unique addresses distributed throughout the world. • The reports are generated by subject-specific editors (>80). E.g. Accounting & Auditing, Central Banking, Computational Economics, Financial Markets, Innovation, Network Economics, Public Finance, Sports & Economics,… Source: nep.repec.org (March, 2009)

  5. New Economics papers Entrepreneurship • Founded in November 2001. • > 800 subscribers • > 300 reports • > 2400 working papers

  6. New Economics papers Entrepreneurship • Entrepreneurship? • Entrepreneurial :“the manifest ability and willingness of individuals, on their own, in teams, within and outside existing organizations, to perceive and create new economic opportunities (new products, new production methods, new organizational schemes and new product–market combinations) and to introduce their ideas in the market, in the face of uncertainty and other obstacles, by making decisions on location, form and the use of resources and institutions”; • Managerial: “organizing and coordinating”. (Wennekers and Thurik, 1999, p. 46-48)

  7. New Economics papers Entrepreneurship • Entrepreneurship?

  8. New Economics papers Entrepreneurship • Editing with keywords Entrepreneur(ship), intrapreneur(ship), start-up, starter, gazelle, new firm, firm entry and exit, firm survival, venture, self-employed, self-employment. Associated keywords: innovation, risk, uncertainty, VC, Business Angels, employment, economic growth, gender,… • Now, the editing process is computer-assisted. The case of emerging topic.

  9. New Economics papers Entrepreneurship From common ideas to brilliant new ones; from C to A journals x x x x x x x x x x x x Adapted from a conversation with David Audretsch, 2001.

  10. nep-ent : possible developments • Reminder of some commitments of nep vis-à-vis the nep subscribers • Anonymity • No spam • Reminder of the objective • To provide subscribers with up-to-date information about the research literature.

  11. nep-ent : possible developments To provide subscribers with up-to-date information about the research literature. • Current primary material: information on new additions (working papers) to RePEc • Expanding what we mean by research literature?

  12. nep-ent : possible developments To provide subscribers with up-to-date information about the research literature. • From information diffusion towards information production? • NEP through a new web-based tool with the support of the subscribers? Or a new web-based tool, outside the NEP world?

  13. Thank you very much for your attention ! dejardin@ese.eur.nl

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