Introduction to the Handbook of Quantitative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship

Abstract

The availability of economic, financial, and business data, and their use in empirical scientific entrepreneurship research, has increased significantly in recent decades. The ever-increasing number of researchers looking for answers to important scientific questions, usually followed by political implications that shape people, firms, and societies, and the use of econometrics and statistics as a means of analysing different forms of data, make it increasingly necessary to provide a handbook that can act as an information guide for quantitative analysts and those interested in quantitative entrepreneurship research. This handbook focuses on a number of important empirical issues related to entrepreneurship and should assist and be considered as a complementary resource for those who wish to pursue empirical work in the entrepreneurship field.