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Energizing an Entrepreneurial Economy: A Guide for County Leaders
National Commission on Entrepreneurship Publications
From the Garage to the Boardroom: The Entrepreneurial Roots of America’s Largest Corporations, 2001
High-Growth Companies: Mapping America’s Entrepreneurial Landscape, 2001
Entrepreneurship – A Candidate’s Guide, 2002
Five Myths About Entrepreneurs: Understanding How Businesses Start and Grow, 2001
Building Entrepreneurial Networks, 2001
Selected Policy Reports
Understanding Entrepreneurship – A Research and Policy Report, The Kauffman Foundation, 2005
Jay Kayne, State Entrepreneurship Policies and Programs, The Kauffman Foundation, 1999
NGA Center for Best Practices, A Governor’s Guide to Strengthening State Entrepreneurship Policy, 2004
Dane Stangler and Robert E. Litan, Where Will The Jobs Come From?, The Kauffman Foundation, 2009
Economic Development America special edition, The Marriage of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Winter 2005
Economic Development America special edition, Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovative Leadership, Winter 2006
Erik R. Pages and Kenneth Poole, Understanding Entrepreneurship Promotion as an Economic Development Strategy: A Three-State Survey, 2003
Selected Research Reports
James Heaton, Developing Entrepreneurs, Rural Research Report, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Summer 2005
Elaine L. Edgcomb, Joyce A. Klein, and David Black, Revitalizing Rural Economies Through Entrepreneurship Development Systems, 2008
CFED, Mapping Rural Entrepreneurship, 2003
Stephan J. Goetz and David Freshwater, State-Level Determinants of Entrepreneurship and a Preliminary Measure of Entrepreneurial Climate, Economic Development Quarterly, 2001
Advanced Research Technologies LLC for SBA Office of Advocacy, The Innovation-Entrepreneurship NEXUS, 2005
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Project reports
Sarah Low, Regional Asset Indicators: The Wealth of Regions, The Main Street Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2005
Sarah Low, Jason Henderson and Stephan Weiler, Gauging a Region’s Entrepreneurial Potential, Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2005
Thomas S. Lyons, PhD, The Entrepreneurial League System®: Transforming Your Community’s Economy Through Enterprise Development, Appalachian Regional Commission, 2002
The Kauffman Foundation, Index of Entrepreneurial Activity
OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme, Measuring Entrepreneurship – A Collection of Indicators, 2009
More Inspiring Stories of Entrepreneurship
Charlotte Scott
Jim Jenkins
Shirley Williams
Larry Comer
Lavender Farm
Excell Home Care
Rah Trost
Cedar Works
Beth Strube
Jerry Atkin
Maxine Moul
Janell Anderson
Brenda Emery
Pam Curry
Phyllis Kilby
Cabela’s
Laurel Gamm
Haley Kilpatrick
Lickity Split Chocolate Studio
Shane Mayes
Wisconsin’s Artisan Dairy Industry
Chilton Rogers
Dennis Burke
Tanaya Ewell
Cain Bond
Tupelo Mississippi
Littleton Colorado
Ord Nebraska
Iowa Town Booms
Sparta North Carolina
South Wood County/Heart of Wisconsin
Winston County Mississippi
Brookfield Missouri
WAEM – Western Alabama East Mississippi
Team Taylor County
New York Mills Minnesota
Washington’s Community Learning Centers
West Virginia’s Entrepreneurs Building a League of Their Own
Chester Bridge Foundation
Microenterprise Council of Maryland
QUAD Facilitation Program
Youth Entrepreneurship Partnership
Kansas Small Business Development Center
West Central Initiative
CEO Praxis
Northern Initiatives
Northeast Entrepreneur Fund
Just Don’t Call It Entrepreneurial
Small Telecom Company Promotes Entrepreneurism
Small Business Incubator Facility – Early Texas
Dickinson State University
Entrepreneurial Farming in Ohio
Georgia’s State Initiatives
Indianpreneurship Curriculum
Tobacco to Tourism in Elliott County Kentucky
