The latest issue of Entrepreneur magazine contains its annual list of the best graduate and undergraduate programs for budding entrepreneurs. The review notes that more schools are getting into the field, generating lots of new ideas and innovations. Another big trend is the growing interest, among both students and faculty, in social and environmental entrepreneurship. [...]

The prolific Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and its Director Rob Atkinson, have recently been releasing a whole series of interesting looks at future directions in innovation policy. The latest missive, An Innovation Agenda for the Next Administration, presents an eight-point plan for how the next President, and the new Congress, can best support America’s [...]

Doug Holtz-Eakin, Director of Economic Policy for John McCain*, sat down with Carl Schramm of the Kauffman Foundation at last week’s Inc. 500/5000 to talk about the policies necessary to stimulate a struggling economy. From the reason entrepreneurship does not get enough air-time during the candidate’s speeches (”too many syllables to fit in the [...]

When we think about innovation policy, many tend to become exclusively focused on domestic science and technology initiatives. Yet, trade plays an increasingly important role in stimulating innovation. A new Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) research paper examines the links between trade and innovation. It reviews the academic literature, and also assesses how [...]

The new Australian government, led by Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, has been involved in a major review of the nation’s innovation systems. The government’s analysis and assessment were released earlier this month, and the basic message is that, as Australian Innovation Minister Kim Carr noted, “If we are serious about unlocking Australia’s innovation potential, [...]

For the past five years, the World Bank has been publishing its influential Doing Business series that tracks how national governments perform on a host of measures related to regulatory burdens placed on small businesses. The latest Doing Business report was released last week, and, as usual, it contains interesting data and analysis. Singapore remains [...]

With aftershocks continuing to reverberate from last week on Wall Street, the presidential election is likely to be a referendum on which candidate is best suited to deal with a challenging economic situation. Effective technology and innovation policies must be and will be an important part of any solution, and this is an area where [...]

Several new papers sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) examine the impact of shared capitalism compensation schemes, such as stock options and employee stock ownership programs (ESOPs) on company performance. As part of the NBER Shared Capitalism research project, the researchers surveyed workers in fourteen companies that actively use these compensation practices. [...]

When most people think of innovation, they tend to think of science, technology, or manufacturing, i.e. the development of new products or technologies. But, innovation in services is also an important, and poorly understood, part of an entrepreneurial economy. A new study from within Great Britain’s Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), examines [...]

The latest edition of the Milken Institute’s Best Performing Cities report was released earlier this month, and, as usual, Southern and Western cities top the list. The Milken analysis places a heavy emphasis on a region’s recent job growth. This year’s analysis tracks performance between 2002 and 2007, and also includes a separate measure that [...]