Entrepreneurship Editorials

 

The current focus of economic policy in America is on how to create more jobs. With the latest estimate of the unemployment rate at 9.5 percent,1 among the highest rates in decades and without much indication of decline anytime soon, this focus is not misplaced. To cut the unemployment rate significantly, it’s clear that the United States needs to create jobs at rapid rates. One promising source of new jobs is startups.

 

 

The Council adopted conclusions on "New skills for New Jobs: the way forward" urging member states to increase their efforts in order to adapt citizens’ skills to new challenges (e.g. by modernising their education and training system, increasing flexibility of education and training programmes, developing the links between the education and training and the labour market, promoting the participation of the younger and older generations as well as low-skilled and other disadvantaged groups in the labour market and enhancing the role of public employment services).

MEPs call on EU Member States and businesses to invest in education and training as "an essential precondition for emerging from the economic crisis".

To teach the skills that society needs, they advocate measures to ensure that at least 40% of people between 30 and 34 have a university education.

It is well understood that firms large and small are continuously and simultaneously destroyingand creating jobs.

However, there is a dynamic in firm birth that seems to be very important for understanding job creation - specifically, the unique effect of new firms, or startups

Research*EU Is the European Union’s research magazine, written by independent professional journalists, which aim s to broaden the democratic debate between society and science. 

The new strategy launched by the European Commission with the objective to get out from the crisis and prepare the EU economy for the next decade.

The report and Evaluation of the Pilot Action "High Level Reflection Panels on Entrepreneurship Education" by DG Enterprise and Industry and DG Education and Culture

The Harvard Business Review's Must-Reads on Strategy provides data about what makes a strategy work and confirms that "strategy" can not be separated from "execution"

This report analyses how Higher Education Institutions are working to revitalize their Regional and State economies

 

This study by the Kauffman Foundation points to entrepreneurship, and particularly high-growth entrepreneurship, as a fertile and perhaps under-recognized source of new jobs.

 

KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

September 2008

Insights from the Competence-based Approach

Thomas Lans, Wim Hulsink, Herman Baert and Martin Mulder

The 2009 Executive Report from GEM, based on 180,000 interviews conducted in 54 countries, is focused on the impact of the recession on entrepreneurship and the extent to which entrepreneurship can help reverse a downward economic trend.

The final report from the European Commission (November 2009). It is aimed at identifying existing policies and programmes that promote learning about entrepreneurship within vocational training systems.

 

A paper concerned with the distinctiveness of entrepreneurship and small business development in countries that are at different stages of transformation to market based economies.

This paper analyses the importance of entrepreneurship, and its training, in transition economies focusing on Turkey in particular.

This is a working paper focused on eastern European economies analyzing how politicization of economy influenced, and still influence today, entrepreneurship in those countries.

This interesting paper proposes and implements a methodology for evalutating self-employment, analyzing both employers and own-account workers in European transition economies.

 

This report presents the results of the second round of empirical data collected under the OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (EIP), 2009.

 

 

A report by the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship evaluating the activities for supporting education for entrepreneurship and understanding the impact of education for entrepreneurship programmes.

 

 A free publication from the OECD LEED programme providing an overview of the key issues and policy challenges surrounding entrepreneurship and SME development, with particular reference to South East European countries, focusing on challenges that all countries confront as they seek to stimulate and facilitate entrepreneurship.

A study published in 2004 by the OECD addressed to policy makers for supporting policy making in favour of entrepeneurship.

Recommendations for making Europe a better place in which to innovate.

A collection of 50 european Good practices for SMEs training.

A European study analysing practices of Entrepreneurship education in University with a special focus on non-business studies.

A paper prepared by Prof Miller of Standford University, presenting the key environmental features of a conducive "habitat" for entrepreneurship.