Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: 36 Month Follow-up

新公司的创建被认为是新工作、生产率提高、产品创新、移民融入经济的主要来源，也是许多人的主要职业选择。创业动态小组研究基于全国代表性的1,214名新生企业家样本，并提供了他们从创业过程的初始阶段到建立持续业务的独特经验记录。总共已经完成了三次年度访谈。访谈提供的信息包括企业的性质、实施的创业活动、创始团队的特点和帮助网络、资金支持的来源和数量、对经济环境的评估、竞争战略和增长预期，以及初生企业家的动机、观点和个人背景的细节。美国国家科学基金会对第四次面谈的资助将使我们能够更全面地评估这些因素中哪一个对过程的结果有关键影响，从放弃努力到建立正在进行的业务。美国国家科学基金会的资助将加强目前广泛用于创业过程理论发展的现有数据集，它将有助于更准确地概念化美国经济中的创业精神，改进与创业过程相关的社会成本和收益的估计，并进一步有助于理解新公司对美国全球竞争力的贡献。

The creation of new firms is recognized as a major source of new jobs, productivity gains, product innovations, integration of immigrants into the economy, and a major career option for many people. The Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics is based on a nationally representative sample of 1,214 nascent entrepreneurs and provides a unique empirical record of their actions, from the initial stages of the process to the establishment of an ongoing business. A total of three annual interviews have been already completed. The interviews provide information on the nature of the business, start-up activities implemented, the characteristics of the founding team and helping networks, sources and amounts of financial support, evaluations of the economic context, competitive strategy and growth expectations, along with details of the motivations, perspectives, and personal background of the nascent entrepreneur. NSF funding of the fourth interview will enable a more comprehensive assessment of which of these factors have a critical impact on the outcome of the process, ranging from the abandonment of efforts to the establishment of an ongoing business.The NSF funding will enhance the existing data set that is now widely used for theory development about the entrepreneurial process, it will contribute to more accurate conceptualizations of entrepreneurship in the U.S. economy, improve estimates of the social costs and benefits associated with the entrepreneurial process, and further contribute to understanding the contributions of new firms to U.S. global competiveness.