One of the most interesting findings of the 2007 GEM report (see prior post describing GEM below) is the entrepreneurial differences between China and India. According to the GEM report:
"The world’s two largest emerging economies, China and India, exhibit significantly different levels of high-expectation and high-growth entrepreneurship. The difference between China and Indiais over sixfold."
You have to actually dig a bit to see what they mean by this, but if you do you will find that the percentage of high-expectation and high-growth entrepreneurs is 6X higher in China than India (see prior post on GEM or the GEM Report for definitions). If these differences sustain themselves over time, the two countries will have a very different economic structures and impact the rest of the world in very different ways.
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