The increase in entrepreneurial activity in Jamaica has been chronicled in successive versions of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report, a publication which compares data on entrepreneurship from several countries. A unique data set highlighted by the report is the Total Early Stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA), which captures the number of new businesses started over a particular period of time.
Over 15 years of doing the study, the TEA of less-developed countries, such as Jamaica, has consistently exceeded that of more developed economies.
