Entrepreneurship

Robert W. Fairlie, Ph.D., January 2018 Full ReportDownload Research SummaryDownload Large differences in business ownership rates and income exist between minority groups and non-minorities. Those differences have persisted over…

By Maurice Kugler, Marios Michaelides, Neha Nanda, and Cassandra Agbayani, September 2017 Full ReportDownload Research SummaryDownload This study describes entrepreneurship in low-income areas. It focuses on three things: the…

Margaret E. Blume-Kohout, February 2016 Full ReportDownload Research SummaryDownload Purpose The STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and mathematics—are the source of tangible innovations in products and processes that…

Startup accelerator programs are innovative funding mechanisms that have the potential to identify high-value startups and help them advance to the next stage of growth.

Margaret E. Blume-Kohout, October 2014 Full ReportDownload Research SummaryDownload Overall Findings The key findings of this report suggest an effective strategy for addressing the gender gap in STEM fields’ entrepreneurship…

C. Scott Dempwolf, Jennifer Auer, and Michelle D’Ippolito, October 2014 Full ReportDownload Research SummaryDownload Purpose While accelerator programs have been around for almost a decade, their more recent successes have…

Bradley T. Heim Consulting, April 2014 Full ReportDownload Research SummaryDownload Overall Findings The study’s key finding is that the decline in the self-employment among 55- to 64-year-olds over the 1994-2012 period was…

Jules Lichtenstein, January 16, 2014 Issue Brief 2 - Business Owner DemographicsDownload