The Database Project

Research in the field of entrepreneurship is constantly growing, but the fundamentals – valid data – are lacking. The International Startup Database Project is being developed in an effort to generate this data, which is essential to understanding the complexity of contemporary startups.

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Creating a research infrastructure

The project will provide universities with a unique opportunity to obtain valid insight into the factors that drive the success of startups. The intention is to create a research infrastructure that will make startup-related data available to researchers, establishing unique conditions for understanding what really accounts for successful startups. -

A unique starting point

Professor Peter Lotz from Copenhagen Business School is member of the steering committee of the International Startup Database. He explains the project’s remarkable position:
“In fact, Denmark is quite unique because we have the CPR and CVR registers. The information about individuals is very detailed (who the person’s parents are, where the person attended high school or obtained additional education, how much the person earns, when the person has been employed, etc.). When we add information about the companies where people have been employed (which is done in the so-called IDA database hosted by Statistics Denmark), we get data that is extremely useful for entrepreneurship research and unique in an international context. Some of the best international research on entrepreneurship is actually based on IDA data. However, the IDA database was not created for research on entrepreneurship, and we would like to add additional information to make it even more interesting”

Read more in CIEL’s Annual Report p. 46-47.