Entrepreneurship Articles, Videos and Faculty Publications

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New IRS Retirement Plan Navigator Aims to Help Small Businesses
WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service has created a new Web-based tool to help small business owners determine which tax-flavored pension plan best suits their needs and how to keep their plans in compliance.

Taking Care of Business (profile on '05 alumna, Megan Metzger)

Megan Metzger ’05 is founder and president of Preferred Childcare Inc. Sarah Livengood ‘11  is one of the many UNCG students contracted by the company to deliver first-rate, reliable childcare to families around the Triad...

Mind Your Business (profile on '09 alumni, John Read)
John Read enrolled at UNCG as a student with a photography hobby. He’ll graduate in December as an entrepreneur with a photography business...

Tote Couture: Lunch bag problem becomes thriving business (Greensboro News & Record, 06.28.09)
Profile on local company CaddySac, founded by UNCG alumna, Sue Catherine.

Boomers Move to Self-Employment (Forbes.com 07.02.09)
Rising unemployment reinforces their entrepreneurial bent...

Tapping Your Inner Entrepreneur (Association of College & Research Libraries, 06.24.09)
A retrospective article from Steven Bell, keynote speaker at UNCG's 2009 Inspiration, Innovation, Celebration: An Entrepreneurial Conference for Librarians

Kauffman Foundation - article
Entrepreneurship remains strong in 2008 with increasing business startups. Activity rate increased among many groups including immigrants, women and older Americans and in all regions except Midwest, which had a slight decline.

The Entrepreneurial University: An Institutional Innovation ( Jonathan Ortsman, Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation)

An Unlikely Duo Pushes for Entrepreneurship in Schools (The New Republic, 05.05.09)
The Center for American Progress (CAP) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) unveiled a joint report on innovation and entrepreneurship in education.

Seniors as Entrepreneurs: Their Time Has Come (BusinessWeek, 06.08.09)
Economic volatility plus more boomer retirees have moved the starting age for startups and led to a surge of senior-run businesses.

Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity 1996-2008
The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity is a leading indicator of new business creation in the United States. Capturing new business owners in their first month of significant business activity, this measure provides the earliest documentation of new business development across the country. Analysis of matched monthly data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) allows for comparisons of the percentage of the adult, non-business-owner population that starts a business over time. In addition to this overall rate of entrepreneurial activity, separate estimates for specific demographic groups, states, and select metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)are presented. The Index provides the only national measure of business creation by specific demographic groups

More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

State of Entrepreneurship Address




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BLOGS

Your the Boss (NY Times)
You're the Boss is a new blog from The New York Times about small business and entrepreneurship. Its contributors interpret news events, track political and policy issues, and offer investing tips. Most important, they offer business owners a place where they can compare notes, ask questions, get advice, and learn from one another's mistakes.

BuzzMachine entry "Teaching entrepreneurial journalism"

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VIDEOS



National Business Incubation Association 2009 Annual Conference (Carl Schramm, President and CEO, Kauffman Foundation, Keynote Speaker)

Milken Institute 2009 Global Conference "Entrepreneurship = Recovery: A Formula for Long-Term Economic Growth" (Carl Schramm, President and CEO, Kauffman Foundation)


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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
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  • Books
  • Articles
  • Conference Proceedings

     

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    BOOKS

    Global EntrepreneurshipGlobal Entrepreneurship (S. Carraher and D. Welsh) Dubuque, Kendall Hunt, 2009

    Government as Entrepreneur Government as Entrepreneur (A. Link and J. Link), Oxford, Oxford University Press, forthcoming summer 2009.

    Valuing the Entrepreneurial Enterprise ( D. Audretsch and A. Link), Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

    A History of Entrepreneurship ( R. Hebert and A. Link), London, Routledge, 2009.

    Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change     (D. Siegel and A. Link), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.

    Entrepreneurship and Technology Policy (edited volume), London, Edward Elgar, 2006.

    The Entrepreneur: Mainstream Views and Radical Critiques (with R.F. Hebert). New York:  Praeger, 1982.  Second edition, 1988.  Reprinted in Japanese by Holt, Rinehart, and Sanders, 1984.


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    ARTICLES

    “Public Knowledge, Private Knowledge: The Intellectual Capital of Entrepreneurs” (with C. Ruhm), Small Business Economics, forthcoming.  Also published as NBER Working Paper 14797, March 2009.

    “Bringing Science to Market: Commercializing from NIH SBIR Awards” (with C. Ruhm), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, forthcoming. Also published as NBER Working Paper 14057, June 2008.

    “Private Investor Participation and Commercialization Rates for Government-Sponsored Research and Development: Would a Prediction Market Improve the Performance of the SBIR Program?” (with J. Scott), Economica, April 2009, 76: 264-281.

    “Entrepreneurship and Human Capital: Evidence of Patenting Activity from the Academic Sector” (with S. Allen and D. Rosenbaum), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, November 2007, 31: 937-951.

     “Public Policy and Entrepreneurship,” in The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy, edited by D. Audretsch, I. Grilo, and R. Turik, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.

    “Historical Perspectives on the Entrepreneur” (with R. Hébert), Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 2006, 2: 261-408.

    “The Entrepreneur as Innovator” (with R. Hébert), Journal of Technology Transfer, September 2006, 31: 589-597.

     “An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Fast Track Program in Southeastern States,” in The Small Business Innovation Research Program: An Assessment of Fast Track, edited by C. Wessner, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 2000, 184-210.

    “Estimates of the Social Returns to SBIR-Sponsored Projects” (with J. Scott), in The Small Business Innovation Research Program: An Assessment of Fast Track, edited by C. Wessner, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 2000, 275-290.

    “A Statistical Analysis of the National Academy of Sciences’ Survey of Small Business Innovation Research Awardees” (with D. Audretsch and J. Scott), in The Small Business Innovation Research Program: An Assessment of Fast Track, edited by C. Wessner, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 2000, 291-306.

     “Entrepreneurship and External Sources of Technology,” in Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, edited by G.D. Libecap, Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1993, pp. 177-188.

     “Innovative Behavior in Small-Sized Firms” (with B. Bozeman), Small Business Economics, September 1991, 3: 179-184.

     “Firm Size, University-Based Research, and the Returns to R&D” (with J. Rees), Small Business Economics, April 1990, 2: 25-31.  Reprinted in Innovation and Technological Change, edited by D. Audretsch.  London:  Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1991, pp. 60-70

     “In Search of the Meaning of Entrepreneurship” (with R. Hébert), Small Business Economics, January 1989, 1: 39-49.

     “Firm Size and Efficient Entrepreneurial Activity: A Reformula­tion of the Schumpeter Hypothesis,”Journal of Political Economy, August 1980, 88: 771-782

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    CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS


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