Final answer:
Employment rates are not typically a direct factor influencing entrepreneurial activity compared to bank funding, government policies, and trade issues which have a significant impact on businesses.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question asks which factor does not influence entrepreneurial activity out of the given options. The options to consider are bank funding, employment rates, government policies, and trade issues. While bank funding, government policies, and trade issues have a direct impact on entrepreneurial activity, employment rates do not typically have the same direct level of influence on the decision to start and operate a business. High or low employment rates may affect the labor market and consequently the cost and availability of labor for an entrepreneur, but they are not a direct factor like access to capital (bank funding), regulations (government policies), or the flow of goods (trade issues).