entrepreneurship

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2001 assessment reports that interest by would-be entrepreneurs to start new businesses declined in 2001 as the economic recession and lingering effects of the dot.com crash dampened enthusiasm for launching new ventures. The trend is expected to continue for the near term with a strong rebound later in the year.

The paper demonstrates that recent results suggesting a positive relationship between banking regulation and entrepreneurship are very sensitive to estimation assumption. When heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation are corrected for, branching deregulation is shown to have no effect and the estimated effect of interstate banking deregulation is reduced by nearly two thirds.

The report provides an extensive review of the role of public policy during the “entrepreneurial revolution” of the past 40 years. The report recommends that policymakers execute an action plan to address specific issues that will expand and extend the entrepreneurial economy.

The study from the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development reports an intriguing potential source of new entrepreneurial energy seems to exist among recently laid-off workers. The analysis examined data from 5,420 workers who participated in the states Dislocated Worker Program in 2001 and suggests that policymakers can encourage entrepreneurship by recognizing it as a realistic option for dislocated workers.

The report released by the Kauffman Foundation finds that African-Americans are 50 percent more likely to start a business than whites and ten million American adults are involved in the process of starting nearly six million potential new businesses at any one time. Four critical questions are addressed in the study that tracks emerging entrepreneurs as they progress through the entrepreneurial process.

This paper empirically assesses whether and for whom entrepreneurial activity creates value in a large traditional firm.

In this paper, the author presents a model on the micro-foundations of entrepreneurial behaviour in large traditional organizations. She proposes that entrepreneurial behaviour is largely affected by managers subjective interpretations of their supportive context and their set of cognitive and emotional characteristics.

The report examines the current state of venture capital for women entrepreneurs interested in, and capable of, high-growth venturing. The Project explores the eight myths, or stereotypes, that have the potential to inhibit a womans chance of gaining access to equity capital. The report also outlines the potential implications of the apparent disparity between men- and women-owned ventures and their access to equity funding - and provides some key recommendations to encourage and facilitate equity investment in all entrepreneurial ventures.

The Maryland Technology Development Corp. and the Department of Business and Economic Developments first part of a two-phase study by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies reviewed Maryland companies in each of six high-tech industry clusters identified by the Department of Labor: chemicals and energy; high tech machinery and instruments; defense and aerospace; biomedical and biotechnology; research and development; and information technology.

The report by the National Commission on Entrepreneurship details how and why networks of entrepreneurs nurture economic growth in communities across the country. The report notes that regions which have developed strong entrepreneurial economies tend to possess several key ingredients — well-organized local networks along with strong universities, access to equity capital and an advanced public infrastructure