Center for Rural Entrepreneurship - Energizing Entrepreneurial Communities

ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH & POLICY RESOURCES

National Commission on Entrepreneurship Publications

From the Garage to the Boardroom: The Entrepreneurial Roots of America’s Largest Corporations, 2001 (link)

High-Growth Companies: Mapping America’s Entrepreneurial Landscape, 2001 (link)

Entrepreneurship – A Candidate’s Guide, 2002 (link)

Five Myths About Entrepreneurs: Understanding How Businesses Start and Grow, 2001 (link)

Building Entrepreneurial Networks, 2001 (link)

Selected Policy Reports

Understanding Entrepreneurship – A Research and Policy Report, The Kauffman Foundation, 2005 (link)

Jay Kayne, State Entrepreneurship Policies and Programs, The Kauffman Foundation, 1999 (link)

NGA Center for Best Practices, A Governor’s Guide to Strengthening State Entrepreneurship Policy, 2004 (link)

Dane Stangler and Robert E. Litan, Where Will The Jobs Come From?, The Kauffman Foundation, 2009 (link)

Economic Development America special edition, The Marriage of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Winter 2005 (link)

Economic Development America special edition, Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovative Leadership, Winter 2006 (link)

Erik R. Pages and Kenneth Poole, Understanding Entrepreneurship Promotion as an Economic Development Strategy: A Three-State Survey, 2003 (link)

Selected Research Reports

James Heaton, Developing Entrepreneurs, Rural Research Report, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Summer 2005 (link)

Elaine L. Edgcomb, Joyce A. Klein, and David Black, Revitalizing Rural Economies Through Entrepreneurship Development Systems, 2008 (link)

CFED, Mapping Rural Entrepreneurship, 2003 (link)

Stephan J. Goetz and David Freshwater, State-Level Determinants of Entrepreneurship and a Preliminary Measure of Entrepreneurial Climate, Economic Development Quarterly, 2001 (link)

Advanced Research Technologies LLC for SBA Office of Advocacy, The Innovation-Entrepreneurship NEXUS, 2005 (link)

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Project reports (link)

Sarah Low, Regional Asset Indicators: The Wealth of Regions, The Main Street Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2005 (link)

Sarah Low, Jason Henderson and Stephan Weiler, Gauging a Region’s Entrepreneurial Potential, Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2005 (link)

Thomas S. Lyons, PhD, The Entrepreneurial League System®: Transforming Your Community’s Economy Through Enterprise Development, Appalachian Regional Commission, 2002 (link)

The Kauffman Foundation, Index of Entrepreneurial Activity (link)

OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme, Measuring Entrepreneurship – A Collection of Indicators, 2009 (link)