The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2008 Executive Report provides an overview of entrepreneurship attitudes, activity, and aspirations across the globe. The report highlights the importance of capturing entrepreneurship in GEM and the use of the revised GEM model. The report also discusses the relationship between entrepreneurship, institutions, and economic development, and the complex relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development using GEM data. Additionally, the report provides information on the GEM website and data availability.