Some new statistics out put the number of small businesses in the United States in new focus. An eye-opening 98 percent of all companies in the country employ fewer than 500 people and only a fraction of those companies employ more than 100 people. In all, 96 percent of all U.S. companies have fewer than 100 workers.

Categories: Job Creation, Research
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How important is small business and entrepreneurship to economic development? The reality is that small companies and entrepreneurs create a bulk of the job opportunities. That’s why everyone from demographer Joel Kotkin to Richard Florida spends a lot of time talking about entrepreneurship as an engine for job creation and drawing enterpreneurial talent.

Categories: Entrepreneurship
Tagged: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Joel Kotkin, Kentucky small business, Richard Florida, RUPRI, small business, South Carolina Small Business Network, Tennessee and entrepreneurship,

A Kauffman Foundation study shows that empowering entrepreneurs to create high-growth firms in communities might be a more effective job creation strategy than recruiting big industries.

Categories: Entrepreneurship
Tagged: community investment, Economy, Entrepreneurship, small business,

Small businesses have always had a reputation for being the nation’s biggest job creators, but new research challenges that long-held assumption.

Categories: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: big business, Innovation, Job creation, manufacturing, small business, Technology,