Definition: New enterprises

Category: Business demography

Enterprises that are active in a given period, but were not active in the previous period. The number of enterprise births is derived from the population of new enterprises by removing reactivations and other enterprise creations that do not meet the definition of enterprise births. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-RA-07-010-EN.pdf Eurostat, "Business Registers Recommendations Manual", 2010