Bureau of Business Research
Date of this Version
12-2013
Citation
Business in Nebraska vol. 68, no. 707
Abstract
STATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDEX
Unemployment rates and job growth are popular measures for state economies. However, these trends may differ from the state’s performance in core measures of underlying economic strength such as entrepreneurship, net migration and capital formation. Given this, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Bureau of Business Research seeks to track these core economic measures in Nebraska and in all U.S. states.
The State Entrepreneurship Index is one effort to track these core trends. Specifically, the index is used to track entrepreneurship in all 50 states. The index was initially developed by Eric C. Thompson and William B. Walstad in Entrepreneurship in Nebraska: Conditions, Attitudes, and Actions (Gallup Press, 2008). In the current study, we use that methodological approach to and calculate the value of the state entrepreneurship index for 2011 and 2012.
STATE RANKS 2011 AND 2012
ESTABLISHMENT GROWTH
GROWTH IN ESTABLISHMENTS PER PERSON
THE BUSINESS FORMATION RATE
PATENTS PER THOUSAND PERSONS
INCOME PER NON-FARM PROPRIETOR
Comments
Copyright 2013 by Bureau of Business Research, University of Nebraska.