Entrepreneurship

Related Publications

• Preserving Small Businesses

  C. Richard Neu, Diana Gehlhaus, Howard J. Shatz

  With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic causing severe economic dislocations, interviews with 21 business owners revealed concerns about a need for assistance in covering fixed operating costs and about worker safety.

• Can Income Diversification Explain the Growing Entrepreneurship Gap by Age?

  Christian E. Weller, Jeffrey B. Wenger

  The key result of our analysis is that income diversification has become increasingly important in determining entrepreneurship, but that younger households became less likely over time to have income from multiple sources. At the same time, older households maintained their income diversification and their likelihood of working as entrepreneurs became more responsive to having substantial income from non-business sources such as capital income and Social Security benefits.

• Pilot Projects Under the Call for Proposals 'Supporting the Demand and Supply Side of the Market for Social Enterprise Finance'

  Joanna Hofman, Emma Harte, Louise Lepetit, N. Labrum, Stijn Hoorens

  The objective of the call was to identify, develop, promote and disseminate the good practice of national, regional or local governments and of financial intermediaries in assisting young social entrepreneurs at times of high youth unemployment.

• Identifying and Eliminating Barriers Faced by Nontraditional Department of Defense Suppliers

  Amy G. Cox, Nancy Young Moore, Clifford A. Grammich

  The report seeks to identify barriers that companies face when attempting to enter into contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD), especially when they are not traditional DoD suppliers.

• Does Employer-Based Health Insurance Discourage Entrepreneurship and New Business Creation?

  Robert W. Fairlie, Kanika Kapur, Susan M. Gates

  This research brief raises concerns that the bundling of health insurance and employment may discourage business creation.

• Combining Entrepreneurship and Web Development for High School Students

  Benjamin K. Master, David Schulker, Geoffrey E. Grimm, Lea Xenakis

  This pilot evaluation of Startup Tech assesses whether 12th-grade students experienced either improved self-efficacy or changes in their college and career plans during the year in which they were in the program.

Related Projects

• Small Business Owners with Criminal Records

  Analysis of the recent Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that governs which businesses the Small Business Administration can hand out loans to under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Specifically, the law and agency rules prohibit PPP assistance going to a small business with an owner that has at least 20% interest and who is currently indicted, arraigned, incarcerated, on probation, on parole, or who has been convicted of a felony within the last five years.

• Evaluation of StartUp Tech

  Presented by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), Startup Tech is a blended learning tech-entrepreneurship course that teaches high school students front-end web development through the lens of lean startup business principles. The study will evaluate implementation and outcomes associated with participation in the course, focusing on attainment of 21st Century Skills.

• Capturing Entrepreneurship-Related Policy in Local Ecosystems

  This project is developing a replicable, low-burden method for collecting and identifying city and state laws that impact entrepreneurship, as current state law databases do not adequately identify entrepreneurship-related laws and no database exists of city ordinances. In phase II, we will train a machine-learning tool to identify these laws automatically and develop a low-cost human validation approach to ensure high quality data. In phase III, we will develop composite metrics from these laws for different stakeholders (e.g., early-stage entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial support organizations, etc.).

• Assessing the Office of Small Business Program’s Workforce Reporting Structures

  The Army’s Small Business Program provides essential services that can enhance strategic readiness priorities by identifying and facilitating outreach to small businesses, especially those with innovative, cutting-edge technologies. This project provides a baseline assessment of program reporting structures across the enterprise that can be used to assess the effectiveness of the program and support for the small business professional (SBP) workforce.

• Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion: Evaluation of Social Innovation

  The study reviewed results of pilot projects to develop, promote and disseminate new and more effective solutions to reduce barriers encountered in accessing social enterprise finance.