During the last decade digitisation has transformed entrepreneurial activities as for both the entrepreneurial opportunities and the practices to pursue them. The measurement challenge of the digital entrepreneurship lays in the pervasive nature of the phenomenon itself that cannot be captured by count-based measures of individual-level entrepreneurial action. The European Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems (EIDES) addresses the measurement challenge by appraising the framework and systemic conditions for 1. stand-up, 2. start-up, and 3. scale-up activities in the EU28 countries.

This dataset includes the first release of the EIDES published in 2018.