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The Venture Impact Report
Published by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), Venture Impact takes a look at the economic impact of venture backed companies. This study looks at the contribution venture backed companies have had on overall job creation, revenue creation and innovation over the last 30 years.
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News About Us From Around the World
We are an “open-source” community and therefore organizations around the world are free to use our ideas, our information, and our online support to advance entrepreneurship. Our work has been cited in key papers, articles, and numerous research studies around the world. Our Web site is recognized as one of the best resources on the Internet for entrepreneurs, academia, and researchers around the world.
Access the Best Seed & Early Stage Life Science Pipeline in the World!!
The 2008 Life Sciences Venture Forum is the largest - and longest running - showcase of early stage innovation and entrepreneurship on the planet. It is the must-attend event for those seeking access to untapped quality deal flow from around the world. Continue reading ‘Special Event: 2008 Life Sciences Venture Forum’ »
Lighting the Way: Toward a Sustainable Energy Future
The InterAcademy Council has released a new report, commissioned by the governments of Brazil and China, identifying and detailing the scientific consensus framework for directing global energy development. Continue reading ‘Report: Toward a Sustainable Energy Future’ »
Experiments In Financial Liberalization: The Mexican Banking Sector
Examines financial liberalization in Mexico, which has the most free-trade agreements in the world today. This liberalization has included the banking industry, particularly since 1997, when foreign banks were allowed to enter the Mexican market.
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The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development
This paper explores whether promoting entrepreneurship and small businesses makes sense as an economic development strategy. The author concludes that it probably does, but with some caveats. Small businesses are potent job creators, but so are large businesses. Continue reading ‘Report: Entrepreurial activity & economic development’ »
Milton Friedman began his teaching career at the University of Chicago isolated intellectually. He defended the ideas that competitive markets work efficiently to allocate resources and that central banks are responsible for inflation. By the 1980s, these ideas had become commonplace. Continue reading ‘Contributions of Milton Friedman to Economics’ »
Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment Under Political Instability
This article describes some stylized facts about expropriation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and develop a theory that relates direct and indirect forms of expropriation to the degree of political instability (the frequency at which groups alternate in power) and concentration of power (the number of powerful groups affecting policy). Continue reading ‘Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)’ »
Small Business Growth: Searching for Stylized Facts
This is an Office of Advocacy working paper by Brian Headd and Bruce Kirchhoff. The authors analyzed data from special tabulations of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) database. The SUSB data provided information on how firms started, grew, merged, declined, survived, and closed from 1992 to 2002. Continue reading ‘Report: Small Business Growth in U.S.’ »
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2007 Magazine
The Entrepreneur Of The Year (EOY) awards program was created and is produced by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP. As the first award of its kind, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. Continue reading ‘Entrepreneur Of The Year 2007 Magazine’ »
Angel Investors in Groups Achieve Investment Returns In Line with Other Types of Equity Deals
This report was conducted over the past year and analyzed results from 86 organized angel investor groups throughout the United States, involving 538 individual angel group investors who have experienced more than 1,130 exits in which companies that had received the investments were acquired, went public, or were closed. Continue reading ‘Report: Angel Investor Groups’ »
Educational Attainment and Other Characteristics of the Self-Employed: An Examination using Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
It was once assumed that college graduates would go to work for a Fortune 500 firm and that is often true; what is also true is that more students see entrepreneurship as a viable option for their careers. This study examines the relationship between education and the choice to become an entrepreneur, building on previous research and using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to analyze the characteristics of the self-employed compared with individuals employed by others. Continue reading ‘Do you see entrepreneurship as a viable career?’ »
Booz Allen Hamilton’s annual study of the world’s largest corporate R&D spenders finds two primary success factors: aligning the innovation model to corporate strategy and listening to customers every step of the way.
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Transatlantic Innovations in Affordable Capital for Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Prospects for Market-Based Development Finance
A joint report by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Milken Institute. Traditional state and donor-driven approaches to economic development in the SME sector have largely failed. Macroeconomic, institutional, and financial weaknesses prevail in many developing countries, hindering SME financial access and development. Continue reading ‘Affordable Capital for Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)’ »
Small Businesses Lead U.S. Growth: Report Documents Small Firms’ Significant Economic Impacts in 2006
The study, The Small Business Economy: A Report to the President for 2007, is the Office of Advocacy’s annual report on the state of small business in America. The report reviews the economic environment for small businesses in the year 2006, including the financial and federal procurement marketplaces. New research focuses on minority- and veteran-owned businesses, social entrepreneurship, and pre-venture planning. Other chapters and appendices provide data on small business and an update on Office of Advocacy initiatives.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Discussions About Microfinance
In the debate over whether microfinance works, few microfinance institutions articulate what, exactly, their ultimate goals are and how, exactly, they will achieve them. The authors cut through the confusion by mapping a clear theory of change for microfinance. If the goal of microfinance is to alleviate poverty, they say, then MFIs should focus on helping their clients build successful enterprises, rather than on making more and bigger loans.
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Boston Consulting Group identified 100 large and particularly successful companies that are based in rapidly developing economies and going global fast. Incumbent multinational companies will soon encounter them—if they haven’t already—as formidable competitors in markets around the world, but also as potential suppliers, customers, and partners. The authors outline these companies’ performance, analyze their motivations and strategies, and set forth key implications for incumbents.
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Uncovering Knowledge Structures of Venture Capital Investment Decision Making
Pankaj Patel and Rodney D’Souza, doctoral students at the University of Louisville, have received the fifth annual “Best Doctoral Paper” award from the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration. They presented their winning paper, Uncovering Knowledge Structures of Venture Capital Investment Decision Making, at the annual meeting of United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). Continue reading ‘Venture Capital Investment Decision Making’ »
Each year, the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration is
tasked with documenting the importance of entrepreneurship to the American
economy and with highlighting policy issues of relevance to small firms. This
report summarizes the publications produced by the Office of Advocacy’s
Office of Economic Research in 2007.
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Company Behind WordPress Raises More Money
Automattic’s Series B round of financing with co-investors Polaris Ventures and Radar Partners, as well as new strategic investor The New York Times Company. Continue reading ‘Automattic Raises $29M Series B Round’ »