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The overall objective of the German Panel of Nascent Entrepreneurs (GEPANE) is to identify those determinants that either turn nascent entrepreneurs into actual entrepreneurs (owner managers of new firms or “young entrepreneurs”) or lead to a discontinuation of the original start-up idea. These factors may be broken down into person-related determinants, environmental determinants, and organizational determinants. As such, the project covers more or less three partly overlapping areas that capture most of the recent research on nascent entrepreneurs and related panels: characteristics of nascent entrepreneurs, antecedents, and characteristics of the new venture creation process; and explaining new venture creation process outcomes (see Davidsson and Gordon 2009).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The authors would like to thank the “Pro-IAB employees” responsible, specifically Mr. Steinmeister and Mr. Daumann, for their hard work in connection with the follow-up interviews.

  2. 2.

    Different from the GEM definition of nascent entrepreneurs, however, the GEPANE procedure counts only those individuals as nascent entrepreneurs who have not yet founded the firm.

  3. 3.

    In 2007 Germany was not taking part in the GEM. Instead, a survey was conducted with the goal to only identify nascent entrepreneurs for the purpose of the panel. We tried to modify as little as possible in the wording of the interviews. Nevertheless, the screening interviews were much shorter than in GEM (because we just asked the questions necessary to identify nascent entrepreneurs. It might be that these very short screening interviews lead to fewer people realizing that they are in fact nascent entrepreneurs and therefore not taking part. However, even though we yielded fewer nascents than expected, those that we did find are definitely nascent entrepreneurs.

  4. 4.

    No results for the follow-up interviews are currently available from the 2009 screening. This screening will therefore be ignored for the remainder of this chapter.

  5. 5.

    Unfortunately there was an exception to this rule in 2006: the first follow-up interview was only held after 12 months.

  6. 6.

    These are those individuals of Table 5.2 that are either interviewed in the second wave (12 month: 39 + 44 + 37) or in the first wave only because they then already gave up their intention or closed down the already founded firm (23 + 10).

  7. 7.

    Qualification is ranked into three classes: low qualified are those without high-school degree and no vocational training, medium qualified are those with vocational training and/or high school degree, and highly qualified are those holding a university degree.

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    Udo Brixy

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Brixy, U., Sternberg, R. (2011). German Panel of Nascent Entrepreneurs. In: Reynolds, P., Curtin, R. (eds) New Business Creation. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 27. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7536-2_5

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