Migrant Entrepreneurship in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

Abstract. In the last decades a handful of scientist investigated the topic of migrant entrepreneurship in Europe. Therefore historical background, reasons of migrant self-employment or the impacts for host countries, home countries and at the European level could be identified. Still nowadays, there exist no corporate understanding of the term and the limited statistics do not use common definitions or measurements. The purpose of this article identify migrant self-employment in Europe challenges and identify migrant friendly EU countries in terms of e-services for new business establishment. Consequently existing literature and institutions were taken into consideration, analysis of statistics and countries e-government development were analysed.

Transnational migration and entrepreneurial activities of migrants. Introduction

“…Th e second reason for the European institutions to promote entrepreneurial activities of migrants is that regional and local economies may signifi cantly profi t from migrant entrepreneurs. Accordingly, migrants may revitalise neighbourhoods badly aff ected by economic stagnation and unemployment, providing new fl air to them, or they may be vital to the restructuring of selected sectors of an economy (Davidaviciene and Lolat 2016). Th e contribution from Anna Skraba and Magdalena Nowicka demonstrates that the relatively deprived region in Germany bordering Poland can indeed profi t from the entrepreneurial activities of Polish migrants.…”

Towards Technology and Entrepreneurship: A Perspective With Cyclic Conditions

“…Amoroso and Link (2018) examines the role of innovation and gender ownership as determinants of employment growth in Europe. European specifics were analysed by Davidavičienė and Lolat (2016), Jankelová, Jankurová, Beňová, and Skorková (2018), Tvaronavičienė (2016), Roman, Bilan, and Ciumaș (2018) and Teixeira, Casteleiro, Rodrigues, and Guerra (2018) as well.…”