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- International Nascent Entrepreneurship: The role of Individuals and GovernmentsPublication . Gomes, Carlos Filipe Vaz; Braga, Vitor; Correia, Aldina Isabel de AzevedoEntrepreneurship research has increased over the time, the role of this phenomenon in the economy is indisputable, being considered a motor for the growth of economy, wealth and recent studies even found that entrepreneurship as an important role on well-being too. Despite the large number of studies about the stimulus and favorable environment created by the governments to increase the creation of new business, there are some gaps in the literature of this event. In this study is intended to fill some of this gaps, exploring the principal objective of this research, being to understand the priority given by the government in incentives for entrepreneurship as well to study the impact in the perceptions and characteristics of the individuals in the decision to become entrepreneurs. In order to achieve the principal objective of this dissertation, as well of the secondary objectives, two studies were carried. In the first phase, using recent theory and data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - National Expert Survey (GEM NES), which is at this time one of the main international research databases, are studied the factors found on the literature that helps to stimulate the creation of new business and which of them are more important. To achieve this aim, multivariate analysis techniques were used, in particular factor analysis and multiple linear regression models. In the second article, in order to study the variables mentioned in literature that influence the decision to become entrepreneur and international entrepreneur, the database Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - Adult Population Survey (GEM APS) was used, with responses from 60 countries. To achieve the goal, were used nine logistic regression models. Our results from the first study suggest that Government Policies, Financing, Taxes and R&D are all relevant and significant in evaluating the priority given by the government in the creation of firms but also on the growing firms. In more detail, the most important factor to the experts to evaluate the importance given by the government in the entrepreneurship is the Government Policies. In the second research, the results show that all three demographic and economic variables, perceptual variables and national environment are significant when evaluating the decision to become entrepreneur and international entrepreneur, focusing on the fact that principal perceptual variables and country-effects variables help to explain better this decision.