This document summarizes a study comparing immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States, United Kingdom, and Malaysia. The study examined both macroeconomic factors like interest rates and output growth, as well as microeconomic factors like education, gender, experience, and business characteristics that influence survival rates. The study found a relationship between these economic factors and survival rates in all three countries. Problems areas identified for immigrant entrepreneurs included securing suitable business premises, obtaining small business financing, owner motivation, and developing effective management teams.

1. Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Nur Suhaili Ramli
University of York, Uk

2. Rising of immigrant entrepreneurs
United
United States Malaysia
Kingdom

3. Macro Micro
Economics Economics
• Interest rates • Employment
•Output growth growth
•Ages • Education
•Sources •Gender
•Finance •Experience
•Characteristics
Note: According to the study, there is a relationship between both factors
among 3 countries compared.

4.  Failure rate of personal bankruptcies rise, when
interest rates are high and output growth is low
 Modest impact upon small business failure rates
 influenced by number of business started previously
 Characteristic of entrepreneurs
 business survives?
 Education of the entrepreneurs
 survival of firms
 No evidence that gender influences survival

5. Experiences
Labor force Finance
Problem Areas
Premises
Owners
Management
team

6.  Consistent problem s occur
 Premises may be hard to find in a strategic location
 High rental
 Urban, rarely or no rural area
 Small sums of venture capital
 Banking relation matters
 Procedures and processes
 Owners motivation varies
 Depending on aim, interest, determined or force to
 Skills in developing team and manage SMEs

7.  Should we abandon the support to start-up
businesses? by David Storey, 1992
 Small firms in Britain Report, Department of
Employment, 1992
 Entrepreneurship and a new firms, by David
Storey, 1982