Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 407: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage total entrepreneurial activity here for the year ending 31 December 2004. [32583/05]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The total entrepreneurial activity rating is a measure used by the international global entrepreneurship monitor, GEM. It encompasses any type of entrepreneurial initiative, including self-employment as well as those taking specific actions to establish new enterprises. The GEM is a long-term, large-scale multinational research programme co-ordinated jointly by the London Business School and Babson College in the USA. The total entrepreneurial activity rating for Ireland for the year ending 31 December 2004, as measured by GEM, was 7.7%. The GEM research shows that Ireland's rating for 2004 was second only to Poland within the EU in entrepreneurial activity.