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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. In the e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems thought paper Why Entrepreneurship?

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Innovation is key to economic development

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Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Innovation stimulates entrepreneurship. Successful entrepreneurship creates net new jobs. OCAST is Oklahoma’s only agency with the sole focus of technology-based economic development. By Scott Meacham. That’s the common theme in today’s economy.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 2

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Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship. There are enough myths & misconceptions around entrepreneurship as it is! Voices from the field.

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Help Grow the Field of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building

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Join a collaborative effort to design, create, and validate the advancement of the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. And, in 2019 I launched Ecosystem Builder Hub to be an online resource for ecosystem builders. For years, the leading standard bearer in this nascent movement was the Kauffman Foundation.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

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Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship. For example, my EDO had “7 wins” (companies that relocated) in 2018, but only “1 win” in 2019. Metrics do that.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

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Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor. Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom.

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What makes a successful and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem? (Part 2)

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The essence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is its people and the culture of trust and collaboration that allows them to interact successfully. Further reflecting on the InBIA 1 conference and another recent series of interactions at the ESHIP summit, this blog is focused on measurement of the entrepreneurship ecosystem at the area-level. .