south africa and slovenia . both score average for early-stage entrepreneurial activity and ambitious activity, but outperform their peers on innovation, with a high proportions of entrepreneurs introducing new produts into their nation markets.
Moderately competitive economies italy,Spain portugal, russia and malaysia are in the Neutral cluster,which means they perform at or below average for all three metrics of early-stage entrepre-neurship that were examined. None of these economies has a high rate of entrepreneurial employee activity. For Italy , spain , portugal and russia , lack of opportunities for starting businesses could play a singnificant role, alongside cultural factors that direct would-be entrepreneurs into non-entrepreneurial careers.