The evidence on the economic importance of immigrant entrepreneurs just seems to be piling up. The latest data comes from an US Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy-sponsored report from Robert rt Fairlie of the University of California-Santa Cruz. Fairlie’s research assessed three separate US government data sources to get a range of the official [...]

There is a lot of ongoing research examining the impact of new immigrants on economic growth and innovation. Many of these studies focus on the US experience, where large-scale immigration has been a fact of life for decades. A recent Harvard Business School research paper reports on the impact of immigration in Northern Europe. These [...]

According to a new report from the Aspen Institute’s Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group (p (YESG), policy makers need to do a better job of promoting youth entrepreneurship. This effort makes sense for two reasons. Youth entrepreneurship training will help build a more competitive workforce that is more creative, innovative, and, of course, entrepreneurial. An equally [...]

Is engineering, once the exclusive domain of the geeky and brainy, suddenly sexy for college grads? A recent piece in in BusinessWeek by Vivek Wadhwa, a tech entrepreneur and executive in residence at Duke University, points to a deepening financial crisis as a boon for engineering. Until recently, science and math grads were lured to [...]

Which states are leading the United States’ transformation into a global, entrepreneurial, knowledge- and innovation-based New Economy — and which are lagging behind? As a part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Kauffman Foundation and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) released the 2008 State New Economy Index, which ranks the 50 states according to [...]

More than 13,000 activities took place last week in all parts of the world with a single objective — to help shape the future generation of entrepreneurs. Global Entrepreneurship Week, founded and sponsored in part by the Kauffman Foundation, reached millions of young people in more than 75 countries with a range of activities. Some [...]

Each year, the British government, through its Make Your Mark campaign to promote entrepreneurship, honors the UK’s most enterprising community. This honor recognizes a community for its work in improving the local business climate, stimulating enterprise, and creating stronger community connections. Scarborough, located in Britain’s Northeast region of North Yorkshire, was honored for its Scarborough [...]

The latest edition of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Science, Technology and Industry Outlook was released last month. The report examines global dynamics in the fields of science and technology, and also provides country-level analyses for all OECD members. The findings of the report show that OECD member spending on R&D continues [...]

When it comes to starting your own company, it does seem to matter what you did in college. New research from the US Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy’s Chad Moutray takes a look at self-employment among a cohort of adults who graduated from college in 1993. Ten years later, the self-employed among this cohort [...]

The University of Utah has been something of a rising star in the world of university technology transfer and commercialization. Over the past several years, the University has done an impressive job of spinning off new technologies and companies. A new working paper seeks to better understand what’s working in Utah. The authors attribute the [...]