Discover how entrepreneurship drives economic growth by creating jobs, fostering innovation, and promoting social change.

Around the country, and much of the world, advocates are pushing to center entrepreneurship in local economic strategy. Why wasn’t this already the case?

Twenty percent of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open. Forty-five percent fail during the first five years, and sixty-five percent during the first ten years. The reasons ...

Entrepreneur-led economic development is reshaping how local governments support economic growth - and Miami-Dade County is becoming a model for this fresh, action-oriented approach. Unlike ...

Entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as the most dependable source of broad-based economic gains. Nearly all net new jobs come from new companies and a 1% rise in entrepreneurial activity ...

Founded in 1919, The Apprentice School in Newport News has graduated more than 11,000 apprentices over its long history. Part of Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division, it ...

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission this week announced the creation of 75Strong, a statewide program designed to train economic developers and community leaders. The new program is aimed to ...

If human ingenuity is the fountain from which so many global challenges spring, it is also our answer to them. For instance, climate change. As much as any one event can be suggested as the origin of ...

Terra Academy for the Arts (TAFTA) has successfully concluded its Women Entrepreneurs Development Programme (WEDP); a three-day hybrid bootcamp designed to equip female entrepreneurs with the ...

The Swavalambini Scheme aims to encourage women entrepreneurship by training female students in universities through ...

NOEW will run a week of innovation-driven programming across the city from March 9-14, 2026, alongside major partners and culminating in the NOEW Summit at Loyola University New Orleans. *First 200 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Per Stromhaug, who has guided economic development and innovation activities at Binghamton University for more than a decade, has been named senior associate vice president for ...