2009 Entrepreneurship Highlights

Here are the hottest research topics in 2009 from the Kauffman Foundation. Perhaps they’re questions you had about entrepreneurship too?

In 2009, some of the most in-demand reports from the Kauffman Foundation were:

Where Will the Jobs Come From? showed that newly created and young companies are the primary drivers of job creation in the United States.
Timely Entrepreneurship Indicators unveiled the first indications of how the economic slump has impacted entrepreneurship in the United States and 11 other countries in 2008 and most of 2009.
The Economic Future Just Happened found that more than half of the 2009 Fortune 500 companies were launched during a recession or bear market, along with nearly half of the 2008 Inc. list of America’s fastest-growing companies.
The Coming Entrepreneurship Boom found that the United States might be on the cusp of an entrepreneurship boom—not in spite of an aging population but because of it.
Right-Sizing the U.S. Venture Capital Industry suggests that the VC industry needs to shrink to be an economic force.