Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new data set documenting various costs to starting a business across the 50 US states for the year 2011. Design/methodology/approach The first ranking weights and organizes measures using principal components analysis. The second ranking averages...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a system for regularly offered government-sponsored technology prizes. Such prizes would preserve the incentive to invent without the barriers to entry that come with the patent system. This is of particular interest to entrepreneurs as they lack...