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Entrepreneurs and Their Communities Community Research Highlights

Last Updated: December 18, 2009

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Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Building Leadership Capacity in Rural Communities
An Analysis of States' Relative Efficiencies in Promoting the Birth of Small Firms
Technology Solution to SME Growth
The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders
Making Innovative Places
A 21st Century Strategy for U.S. Competitiveness and Prosperity
Proprietorship Formations and U.S. Job Growth
Self-Employment: The New Rural Reality

The 2007 State New Economy Index, released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Practices to Promote Success among Low-Income Entrepreneurs by Kevin McQueen and John Weiser, Brody Weiser Burns, January 2007

The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies, by Zoltan J. Acs, Catherine Armington and Ting Zhang, December 2006

State Tax Policy and Entrepreneurial Activity by Donald Bruce and John Deskins, November 2006

Crossover: How Artists Build Careers Across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work

The Place-Based Structural Determinants and Effects of Self-Employment

Innovation and Growth in High-Tech Sectors by Alex Coad and Rekha Rao, August 2006

Reviving Locally Owned Retail by Stacy Mitchell, May 2006

The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development, Kelly Edmiston, 2007

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