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The â€œMythâ€ That Black Entrepreneurship Can Reduce the Gap in Wealth Between Black and White Families

Bradford, William D. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 28 (2014) 3, pp. 254-269

are consistent with Black entrepreneurship reducing the wealth disparity between Black and White families. …

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Do Entrepreneurship and High-Tech Concentration Create Jobs? Exploring the Growth in Employment in U.S. Metropolitan Areas From 1991 to 2007

Gittell, Ross; Sohl, Jeffrey; Tebaldi, Edinaldo - In: Economic Development Quarterly 28 (2014) 3, pp. 244-253

Technological concentration and innovation have been identified as important forces behind growth, and entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship and technology concentration on employment growth in U.S. metropolitan areas (MSAs) over the course of the last full … business cycle from 1991 to 2007. The findings are in support of the efficacy of entrepreneurship together with high technology …

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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?

Bates, Timothy; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 25 (2011) 3, pp. 255-266

Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...

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Incubation Push or Business Pull? Investigating the Geography of U.S. Business Incubators

Qian, Haifeng; Haynes, Kingsley E.; Riggle, James D. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 25 (2011) 1, pp. 79-90

at the county level. These factors include agglomeration, welfare, and business/entrepreneurship. The results of binomial …

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High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States

Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltan J. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 25 (2011) 2, pp. 116-129

This article reports the results of a national survey that estimates the rate of immigrant entrepreneurship in a …

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Entrepreneurial Universities

Urbano, David; Guerrero, Maribel - In: Economic Development Quarterly 27 (2013) 1, pp. 40-55

In the knowledge economy, academic entrepreneurship occurs at the boundaries of different scientific and professional …

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Greater Access to Capital Is Needed to Unleash the Local Economic Development Potential of Minority-Owned Businesses

Bates, Timothy; Robb, Alicia - In: Economic Development Quarterly 27 (2013) 3, pp. 250-259

Limited access to financing restricts the ability of minority business enterprises (MBEs) to achieve viability, to generate new jobs, and, generally, to reach their full potential to contribute to the economic development of the communities and regions in which they operate. Although MBEs rely...

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Harnessing University Entrepreneurship for Economic Growth

Hayter, Christopher S. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 27 (2013) 1, pp. 18-28

University spin-offs are an important vehicle for knowledge dissemination and have the potential to generate jobs and economic growth. Despite their importance, little research exists on spin-off performance or impact, especially from the perspective of academic entrepreneurs. Using logit...

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Operationalizing the Entrepreneurial Pipeline Theory: An Empirical Assessment of the Optimal Size Distribution of Local Firms

Loveridge, Scott; Nizalov, Denys - In: Economic Development Quarterly 21 (2007) 3, pp. 244-262

This article analyzes the relationship between local economic growth and the distribution of businesses across size categories. The distribution is measured by the employment share in businesses of various sizes and by a business distribution index. The index provides a measure of the extent to...

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State Regulatory Spending: Boon or Brake for New Enterprise Creation and Income?

Campbell, Noel D.; Heriot, Kirk C.; Jauregui, Andres - In: Economic Development Quarterly 24 (2010) 3, pp. 243-250

This article addresses a public policy question: Does state government regulation foster or deter economic development? The authors estimate a system of simultaneous equations for income growth, regulation growth, and growth in the number of new enterprises. It is found that regulation does not...

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