2009 Hot Research Topics: Entrepreneurship, Jobs and Recovery

Mark Marich

The nation's largest funder of entrepreneurial research, theEwing Marion Kauffman Foundation, announced that the most popular research in 2009 explored pastrecession trends and entrepreneurs' roles in economic recoveries.

The Kauffman Foundation has compiled throughout the year itsmost in-demand research, which was mentioned in news stories generating morethan 5 billion media impressions. Data on economic recovery trends, jobcreation and the role of entrepreneurs are among the Foundation's most quoted,requested, viewed and downloaded studies in 2009.

Here are some of the mostin-demand reports from the Kauffman Foundation:

• Where Will the Jobs Come From showed that newly created and young companies are the primary drivers of job creation in the United States.
• Timely Entrepreneurship Indicators unveiled the first indications of how the economic slump has impacted entrepreneurship in the United States and 11 other countries in 2008 and most of 2009.
• The Economic Future Just Happened found that more than half of the 2009 Fortune 500 companies were launched during a recession or bear market, along with nearly half of the 2008 Inc. list of America's fastest-growing companies.
• The Coming Entrepreneurship Boom found that the United States might be on the cusp of an entrepreneurial boom-not in spite of an aging population but because of it.
• Right-Sizing the U.S. Venture Capital Industry suggests that the VC industry needs to shrink to be an economic force.

"Because we are the'foundation of entrepreneurship,' our work is done through the lens of how firmformation and expansion affect the economy," said Robert Litan, vicepresident of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation. "Our researchconsistently shows that young firms are the driving force of new jobs andgrowth. This information is obviously more important than ever, and we will bereleasing more data on these topics in 2010."

A compilation of Kauffmanresearch over the past two years can be accessed here.

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