Press Release: T´naiste launches GEM 2003. Ireland first in the European Union in entrepreneurial activity

Ireland is the most entrepreneurially active country in the European Union and to the fore in Europe as a whole according to the Irish Report of GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) for 2003 launched on 29 April 2004 by Mary Harney, the Irish Deputy Prime Minsiter (T´naiste) and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. GEM 2003 is the fifth global assessment of national entrepreneurial activity. GEM is a long-term, large-scale multinational research programme co-ordinated jointly by the London Business School and Babson College in the USA. The research also involves a consortium of teams from each of the countries involved in the study.

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