%0 Journal Article %T Análisis de determinantes de la actividad empresarial por oportunidad y por necesidad: un estudio sobre los resultados de GEM Colombia 2010 %D 2011 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10906/67921 %X Since 2006, the Center for Entrepreneurship Development of Icesi University, with other 3 Colombian universities, has worked on determining the levels of entrepreneurial activities, the characteristics of entrepreneurial activities and the typology of entrepreneurs, according to the GEM methodology. This international research has rise from 10 countries participating in 1999, to more than 50 countries each year. The main objective of GEM is to explain the Entrepreneurial activity in each country, represented by the measure of the establishment of new business in the last 42 months and the motivations pushing the people to open new businesses. In the Colombian case, there are some results that could be understood as curious or incoherent due to high levels of entrepreneurial activity with a high level of unemployment or “precarious” employment reality %K FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ADMINISTRATIVAS Y ECONÓMICAS %K PRODUCCIÓN INTELECTUAL REGISTRADA - UNIVERSIDAD ICESI %K MAESTRÍA EN ADMINISTRACIÓN-TESIS %K CENTRO DE DESARROLLO DEL ESPÍRITU EMPRESARIAL - CDEE %K ESPÍRITU EMPRESARIAL %K EMPRENDIMIENTO %K EMPRESARIOS %K Economía %K Economics %~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN