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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): the Definitive Study of Entrepreneurship in 2005.

Byline: Babson College

WELLESLEY, Mass., Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Entrepreneurs in middle income countries are beginning to catch up to their counterparts in richer economies by tapping into technologies unavailable to them just a year ago, according to the seventh annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). Directed by Babson College and London Business School, the report is the largest annual measure of entrepreneurial activity worldwide, compiled by more than 150 scholars from 35 countries.

GEM 2005 also found that entrepreneurs with "innovative" b

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