Infographic: New Enterprises 2007-2013

After six years of recession the tide is turning and everyone is more optimistic. Businesses are starting to thrive again. But when it’s not ‘business as usual’, how does a recession affect the rate of starting up new businesses? It’s a positive effect: one factor being that people who have lost their jobs decide to start their own companies rather than looking for a new place of work.

You can see in the infographic below that in the majority of the 15 countries covered by OECD’s Entrepreneurship at a Glance study, there were more enterprises founded after 2007 than in that year.

Here’s to entrepreneurship and the continued success of these new enterprises!