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Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
 Last Friday, I had the opportunity to join an extraordinary group of women entrepreneurs mostly from Saudi Arabia for a lunch at the home of the Honorable Esther Coopersmith. All were both proud of their higher education in Saudi Arabia and had started companies in a wide range of businesses from construction to IT. I should not have been surprised. Starting a business in Saudi Arabia is relatively easy. Its "ease of starting a business" rank is 13 out of 183 economies, according the World Bank's Doing Business 2010 data.
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From the Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship Blog
Open Data & Policymaking
Hal Varian, the chief economist for Google has frequently said that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be a statistician. With the explosion of available digital data its not hard to see what he's getting at. Now think about the impact of that data on decision-making processes of all types -- including public policy. [More]
An Economist for the Court?
Last week, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement kicking off one of Washington's favorite pastimes -- speculating on potential Supreme Court nominees, their political leanings and whether or not the opposing party will turn the confirmation process into a bloodbath. [More]
Picking Winners?
There is an emerging practice of funding companies based on intellectual property (IP) and other intangible assets including worker expertise, effective management, and innovative business methods. [More]
This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy
National Science Foundation programs, national broadband and access to capital for minority entrepreneurs are on tap for discussion on the Hill this week. [More]
Young Entrepreneurs, Here's a Chance to Tell Your Story
The Center for International Private Enterprise invites young people to share their ideas on how to create opportunities for youth to strengthen democracy and the private sector in their own countries. [More]
A Look Back at Innovation Daily
Each day, Innovation Daily checks the pulse of global innovation -- courtesy of Innovation America and its founder, Rich Bendis. Here, we take a look at a handful of relevant stories it compiled from the last week. [More]
Startups and Broad-Based Employee Ownership
Last October, Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for Economics for her work on the role of the commons in economic governance. Now, more and more scholars are exploring the intersection of start-ups and employee ownership. [More]
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