The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute annually publishes the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) to show entrepreneurship of each country/area. The GEI is obtained by averaging the scores of three sub-indexes, entrepreneurial attitudes, entrepreneurial abilities and Entrepreneurial aspirations. However, this GEI construction method with equal weights for three subindexes may be controversial, since the relative importance among the three sub-indexes may vary across countries and areas due to economic and social/cultural reasons. This study comprehensively considers all possible weights, and formulates an interval entrepreneurship evaluation matrix. Employing the Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis, the authors build an improved GEI, which the authors term the Holistic Acceptability Global Entrepreneurship Index. This method differs from the conventional wisdom that assigns exact values to corresponding weights, but explores a weight space considering all possible weight sets. Finally, the proposed method is confirmed using an empirical study measuring and comparing the entrepreneurship of the top 20 countries and areas in terms of 2017 GEI.

全球创业与发展研究所每年都会发布全球创业指数（GEI），以显示每个国家/地区的创业能力。通过对三个子指数，创业态度，创业能力和创业抱负的得分进行平均来获得GEI。但是，由于经济和社会/文化原因，不同国家和地区这三个子指数之间的相对重要性可能会因国家和地区而异，因此该具有相同权重的三个子指数的GEI构建方法可能会引起争议。本研究综合考虑了所有可能的权重，并制定了区间企业家评价矩阵。利用随机多准则可接受性分析，作者建立了改进的GEI，作者将该术语称为整体可接受性全球创业指数。此方法不同于将正确的值分配给相应权重的常规方法，但是该方法考虑了所有可能的权重集来探索权重空间。最后，通过实证研究证实了该方法的有效性，该研究以2017年GEI衡量和比较了前20个国家和地区的创业能力。