1、Authors Karen Bonner,Mark Hart,Neha Prashar,and Nola Hewitt-DundasNorthern Ireland2024/2025 ReportNorthern Ireland 2024/2025 ReportACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe are pleased once again to have NatWest sponsor the 2024 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor UK Report.As the UKs biggest supporter of small businesses,the

2、y understand the important role that start-ups,scale-ups and high-growth businesses play in a strong and prosperous UK economy.Participation in the GEM Global project in 2024 by the UK consortium was again made possible by generous funding.In Northern Ireland,we owe an enormous debt to the Departmen

3、t for the Economy(NI).Entrepreneurship is a focus for the economy and is a long-standing challenge for Northern Ireland.Ongoing support for this annual survey of entrepreneurship provides an important additional contribution to the evidence base to inform the Departments delivery upon its Economic V

4、ision.Alongside the Department for the Economy(NI),the Department for Business and Trade(DBT)Business Innovation Directorate,Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde,the Welsh Government and NatWest,these funders have supported the GEM project for almost all of the last 26

5、 years and provides a long-term perspective on nurturing an entrepreneurship culture across the UK.The vendor for the Adult Population Survey(APS)was BMG Research Ltd and we would like to thank Dawn Hands,Roger Sant and Sharon Gowland for their role in the timely execution of the survey and the crea

6、tion of the UK dataset.In particular,we would like to thank Roger Sant for his ongoing invaluable contribution to the weighting protocols designed to address the dual method used to obtain responses to the GEM APS survey that is,CATI and CAWI(i.e.online).Design and production:www.mortonward.co.ukDes