Tracking Business Births: PSED II 48 & 60 Month Follow-ups

创建新公司被认为是创造新的就业机会、提高生产率、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。创业动力小组研究汇编了对研究美国新公司创建的研究人员有用的信息。数据集基于2005年底确定的1,214名新生企业家的全国代表性样本。它提供了一个独特的描述他们的行动，从最初的希望和意图，通过建立一个正在进行的业务。迄今为止，通过年度访谈收集数据的四波工作已经完成。这些信息包括企业的性质、开展的创业活动、创始团队的特点和帮助网络、财政支持的来源和数量、对经济环境的评估、竞争战略和增长预期，沿着的还有新生企业家的动机、观点和个人背景等细节。该奖项将进行第五轮和第六轮面试，全面评估这些因素中哪些因素在成功建立新企业或促使放弃创业努力方面发挥了关键作用。重要的是，这些额外访谈的时间安排将使我们能够有力地审查最近的金融危机对新兴企业获得的财政支持的数量和种类的影响，以及经济衰退对创业意向的影响。

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 compiles information that is useful to the researchers who study new firm creation in the U.S. The data set is based on a nationally representative sample of 1,214 nascent entrepreneurs identified in late 2005. It provides a unique description of their actions, from initial hopes and intentions through the establishment of an ongoing businesses. Four waves of data gathering by means of annual interviews have been completed to date. These 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. This award will enable a fifth and six round of interviews, will enable a comprehensive assessment of which of these factors played a critical role in the successful establishment of a new business or prompted the abandonment of business start-up efforts. Importantly, the timing of these additional interviews will enable a robust examination of the impact of the recent financial crisis on the amounts and kinds of financial support received by fledgling enterprises as well as the effects of the downturn on entrepreneurial intentions.