How Does Australia Rate

Underpinning this book is our assumption that place matters. In this chapter we consider Australia’s entrepreneurial activity in the context of the international stage. Drawing on the Global Competiveness Index (GCI) (Schwab, 2019), the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) (Bosma et al., 2020) and the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) (Acs et al., 2019), metrics developed to enable cross-cultural comparisons of how conducive national economic conditions are for entrepreneurial activity, we place Australia’s national environment in the wider context of international competitiveness and entrepreneurship.