Archive for July, 2010

SEVA-PORT Innovation Index

July 30th, 2010

The SEVA-PORT (Southeast Virginia Partnership for Regional Transformation) Innovation Index is now available.  This June 2010 study, produced by EntreWorks Consulting and the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, examines how well Southeast Virginia is doing in terms of building a strong talent pipeline of local residents with skills in science, technology, engineering and math-related skills.  
 If […]

The Entrepreneur Experience Lab

July 28th, 2010

Regular readers of the EntreWorks newsletter and blog will know that we are huge fans of the Providence, RI-based Business Innovation Factory.  BIF does lots of interesting work, but one of its core activities is the sponsorship of various “experience labs.”  These labs operate as structured “experiments” where key leaders and thinkers in a given field […]

Crowdsourcing Financial Innovation

July 23rd, 2010

It’s pretty rare to find some interesting and innovative coming out of a G-20 summit, but the recent meeting in Canada did produce one interesting annoucement.  The G-20 nations and Ashoka Changemakers have teamed up to create the G-2o SME Finance Challenge, a global competition to identify the best new ideas and innovations for financing […]

Self-Employment Numbers Show Decline

July 7th, 2010

According to a June 24, 2010 data release from the Census Bureau, the number of nonemployer businesses (i.e. the self-employed) saw a big drop in 2008, the latest year for this data.    Overall, the number of US nonemployer businesses dropped by 1.6 percent between 2007 and 2008.  All states (with the exception of Texas and Washington […]