Too many people on Capitol Hill persist in believing that it makes sense for microbusinesses to do business the way IBM does business, relying on strategies that are complex and paperwork intensive.

But why would we want to do business in ways at which IBM excels and at which we rather spectacularly don’t?

Last month, we took a look at research that examined entrepreneurship and regional economic growth, while using a data set that firmly excluded nonemployer businesses. Last week, the SBA Office of Advocacy released new research that examines entrepreneurial activity by looking at what percentage of workers in a regional Labor Market Area (LMA) is self-employed. [...]

One of the things you hear fairly often is that piece of conventional wisdom that ‘not everyone is an entrepreneur.’ That may be true superficially but, according to the results of an interesting study out of Australia, even those who are not born entrepreneurs can be made into entrepreneurs. The paper in question is entitled [...]

Far, far away from the increasingly xenophobic immigration debates that have peppered the political landscape in recent years, a simple factoid has intrigued economic researchers about the same group over the same period. Immigrants are 30 times more likely to start a business than native born citizens. In a new research report released last week [...]

Lest anyone forget that there is a presidential campaign going on in the midst of the economic melodrama playing itself out on the Hill and on the Street, a new policy paper from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation serves as a timely reminder. The ITIF is a Washington-based tech policy think tank headed up [...]

Last week, the SBA Office of Advocacy announced that its Best Paper award winner from the 2008 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference was a paper that described and analyzed how bankruptcy laws impact entrepreneurship. Using longitudinal data spanning 35 countries over 10 years, the researchers found that “a lenient, entrepreneur-friendly bankruptcy law encourages entrepreneurs to [...]