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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

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“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

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A Year of Resilience: Cheers to 2021

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After collectively witnessing many of our main street and small businesses across the country close in 2020, there arose a new sense of appreciation for the value entrepreneurs bring to our communities and our economy. In 2021, we saw new programs and funding opportunities from the EDA and SBA to rebuild, sustain and grow entrepreneurship.

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AppHarvest is now APPH: Rise of the Rest’s First Publicly Traded Company

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The company’s sustainable growing techniques yield nutritious, chemical pesticide-free non-GMO fruits and vegetables at scale, using 90 percent less water than traditional open-field agriculture and 100 percent recycled rainwater. We believe that transformative companies led by brilliant entrepreneurs can?—?and and should?—?be

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Delaware’s 5th annual Startup302 funding contest accepting applications January 2 to 26

American Entrepreneurship

Coordinated by Delaware Prosperity Partnership and innovation-supporting partners from throughout the Delaware business community and beyond, Startup302 launched in 2020 and has provided $800,000 in funding to 52 ventures since 2021.

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5 areas where VCs can play an outsized role in addressing climate change

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Jamil Wyne is an advisor, investor and author focusing on entrepreneurship, technology and economic development in emerging markets. VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. Jamil Wyne. Contributor. More posts by this contributor. A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem.

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Good Meat approved to sell serum-free cultivated meat in Singapore

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Its lab-grown chicken is currently available in Singapore, where Eat Just gained regulatory approval to sell its lab-grown chicken meat in 2020. The Singaporean government has supported alternative protein startups as the island nation seeks to make its food industry more self-sustaining.

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Why international DFIs are looking to African startups to scale impact investing efforts

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“It’s a paradigm shift, where ‘development finance’ looks at private enterprise as a vehicle of socio-economic development,” said Dario Giuliani, founder and director of research firm Briter Bridges. The organization has invested in eight African startups since 2020.