Westpac GEM Australia: a study of Australian entrepreneurship in 2004

GEM provides a rich, complex database fraught with issues that might easily be called 'key'. Selectively choosing just a few for discussion of their implications is a judgment call that is forced by constraints of researcher time and documentary space. We have selected the following as the key issues whose implications should predominate in the thinking of four constituencies: the general public, the research community, policy makers and business practitioners. [Executive summary]