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- Embracing Innovation: Entrepreneurship and American Economic Growth
- America’s booming entrepreneurial sector is responsible for much of today’s economic prosperity. Entrepreneurs take advantage of new wealth-creating opportunities that arise daily from constant change. This phenomenon creating opportunity from change has been part of the American culture since the 19th century Industrial Revolution. Today, an entrepreneurial renaissance is transforming...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- American Formula For Growth: Federal Policy & the Entrepreneurial Economy, 1958-1998
- The rise of entrepreneurial growth companies (EGCs) has been one of the most significant developments in the American economy over the last 40 years. These companies have not only created millions of new jobs and brought thousands of innovations to market, but they have also been important change agents in...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- From the Garage to the Boardroom: The Entrepreneurial Roots of America’s Largest Corporations
- Throughout America’s history, in times of boom and bust, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship have played a critical role in the economy. Even in the darkest days of the great depression, entrepreneurs started companies that became the economic powerhouses of today. To understand today’s economic landscape, it is important to reflect...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Five Myths About Entrepreneurs: Understanding How Businesses Start and Grow
- This paper concludes that public policy has played an instrumental role in supporting entrepreneurship in the United States. While public understanding of EGCs may be incomplete, research show that different (although complementary) public policies need to address different stages of entrepreneurship. Because of these commonly held five myths of entrepreneurship,...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Building Companies, Building Communities: Entrepreneurs in the New Economy
- The American economy is undergoing a transformation driven by entrepreneurs who create opportunity for change and build new industries based on innovation and global markets. Today’s economy continues to speed ahead, policymakers face significant challenges. The National Commission on Entrepreneurship (NCOE) set out to answer these questions by directly engaging...
- White papers 2000-07-01
- New Report: The Future Of Small Business
- The article presents some real-life details about the American economy. While much of the economy continues to defy gravity, many people in business, government, and academia are trying to get a clear picture of where it is headed. More than half of the nation’s employees work in firms with 100...
- White papers 2000-04-03
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- The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth
- This document deals with the consequences of entrepreneurship for macroeconomic growth. It provides a survey of what is known about the links between entrepreneurial activity and macro-economic growth. Despite the numerous studies linking entrepreneurship to economic growth the relative void may be attributing able to a paucity of theoretical frameworks...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Entrepreneurship in Rural America
- "Article is about the Entrepreneurship in rural America. America's rural communities have long faced significant challenges and disadvantages. Both rural and national leaders have recognized that entrepreneurship can be a key solution to many of the economic difficulties in rural communities.It discusse a stage set for entrepreneurship and programs for...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- A Generalized Supply/Demand Approach To National Entrepreneurship
- Using a generalized supply/demand model, this paper empirically how technology and economic policy explains the temporal variations in national entrepreneurial intensity in the Unites States and Korea. The results confirm the utility of this theoretical approach and reveal distinct patterns in national entrepreneurship that are driven by differences in opportunity...
- White papers 2004-03-02
- At The Intersection Of Entrepreneurship Education Policy And Practice
- The interest in entrepreneurship seems constantly to be escalating, emanating from the industrial sphere and Schumpeter's thesis on economic development until discussions on opportunities In general; entrepreneurship is put forward as the model, irrespective of what diverse problems are addressed. In this vein entrepreneurship has disseminated into other spheres such...
- White papers 2006-05-11
- Social Entrepreneurship: Leadership That Facilitates Societal Transformation
- This paper explains a comparative analysis of seven cases of social entrepreneurship that have been widely recognized as successful. It suggests factors associated with successful social entrepreneurship, particularly with social entrepreneurship that leads to significant changes in the social, political and economic contexts for poor and marginalized groups. It generates...
- White papers 2003-05-30
- Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: Some Empirical Studies
- The importance of entrepreneurship for achieving economic growth in contemporary economies is widely recognized, both by policy makers and economists. However, empirical evidence linking entrepreneurship to economic growth is scarce. This paper investigates the relation between entrepreneurship and economic growth at the country and regional level. It contributes to the...
- White papers 2005-01-17
- Some Fundamental Issues in International Entrepreneurship
- This paper explores four fundamental issues that deserve additional attention from scholars interested in international entrepreneurship. First, a reformulated definition of international entrepreneurship is presented that is consistent with the recent definition of entrepreneurship proposed by Shane and Venkataraman (2000). Second, several theoretical models and frameworks useful to the further...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- National Entrepreneurship Assessment: 2000 Executive Report
- According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2000 Executive Report, the United States continues to be one of the most entrepreneurial countries in the world. Moreover, the conditions supporting entrepreneurship appear favorable well into the future. Some highlights of the U.S. Executive Report are recorded in this article. The United...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Policies
- Many national, regional or local agencies have created policies to directly support entrepreneurs so as to increase the number of businesses or aid the competitiveness and expansion of existing small firms both generally. This paper considers what is meant by the term entrepreneurship and the implications of these meanings for...
- White papers 2002-06-28
- Financial Management: Audit of the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance for Fiscal Years 2003 and 2002
- This document consists of a report which deals with the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance (Commission). The Commission received appropriated funds in fiscal years 2003 and 2002. Its purpose is to sustain the American spirit through acts of remembrance for those who died serving their country,...
- White papers 2004-05-20
- International Entrepreneurship : The Intersection of Two Research Paths
- International entrepreneurship is one of the important newly emerging research thrusts in the field of international business, an increasing number of scholarly investigations into cross-cultural differences in entrepreneurial activity and into entrepreneurial firms that compete across national borders have enriched and broaden both international business and entrepreneurship research. As international...
- White papers 2000-10-01
- Renascent Entrepreneurship
- Why should individuals that have exited their firm consider re-entering into entrepreneurship, i.e. become renascent entrepreneurs' According to the logic of economic models of firm dynamics there is no reason to re-enter into entrepreneurship following firm failure. In contrast, research on nascent entrepreneurship has shown the positive effect of entrepreneurial...
- White papers 2006-10-30
- The Notion of Entrepreneurship: Historical and Emerging Issues
- The concept of entrepreneurship has a long and rich tradition within economic theory. This article outline the history of the term entrepreneurship, provide a brief and suggest an alternative, emerging perspective on the most effective type of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship has proven to be an exceptionally fertile concept within...
- White papers 2000-09-01
- Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Europe
- This paper uses an Eclectic Framework explaining entrepreneurship incorporating different streams of literature and spanning different disciplines. The Eclectic Framework integrates factors shaping the demand for entrepreneurship on the one hand, with those influencing the supply of entrepreneurs on the other hand. It also creates insight into the role of...
- White papers 2004-12-01
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