Being cheaper may not be an advantage at all in a dynamic, knowledge based economy It’s axiomatic in the world of local economic development that the sure-fire way to stimulate growth is to make it
Cities as selection environments Read Post »
The greater San Francisco Bay area has been a hotbed of economic activity and technological change for decades, bringing us ground-breaking tech companies from Hewlett-Packard and Intel, to Apple and Google, to AirBNB and Uber.
Reversed Polarity: Bay Area venture capital trends Read Post »
Entrepreneurship is both a key driver of economic activity and an essential path to economic opportunity for millions of Americans. For much of our history, entrepreneurship has been dominated by men. But in recent decades,
Counting women entrepreneurs Read Post »
This is a story about the triumph of the City—not “the city” that Ed Glaeser has written about in sweeping global and historic terms—but the triumph of a particular city: San Francisco. For decades, the
The triumph of the City and the twilight of nerdistans Read Post »
The work of Raj Chetty and his colleagues at the Equality of Opportunity project has spurred intense interest in the extent of economic mobility, measured by the likelihood that children born to low-income parents achieve
How is economic mobility related to entrepreneurship? (Part 1: Venture Capital) Read Post »
Generating new ideas and creating new businesses drives city economies and national economic growth.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Read Post »
