entrepreneurial activity

I am in Cleveland at John Carroll University this week conducting a workshop on taking entrepreneurship across the campus.

Last night over dinner, one of my hosts told a story about a recent business event. A local business leader said that one of the problems with economy in Northeastern Ohio is that they don't have enough entrepreneurs.

A new global study from The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) reports that women entrepreneurs are a key contributor to economic growth in low/middle income countries, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean.

There is more talk these days from Washington and from those on the campaign trail that government needs to take an active role guiding the economy. With entrepreneurship the driving force in our economy, and for that matter in most economies around the globe, this is an alarming trend. Sen.

While government policies do play a roll in entrepreneurial activity, there is increasing evidence that culture plays a significant part in spurring entrepreneurial economic activity.

A newly released working paper from the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration finds that American rural economies are as dynamic as their suburban and urban counterparts.

Free markets are neither inherently good, nor are they inherently evil. Entrepreneurial activity is not in an of itself a moral act. The ends that the entrepreneur pursues and how they pursue those ends defines the morality of their entrepreneurial efforts.

There are entrepreneurs who use their gifts and talents to build businesses that provide economic, social, and cultural benefits.

Marginal Revolution has a post on a paper that suggests that Brazilian entrepreneurs. The authors of this paper report the following:

I have taken issue quite frequently with the National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship and their pro-socialized entrepreneurship stances. This time their interpretation of tax policy just baffles me: