Sophie Imas reports that Israel has been coined the “Startup Nation”; the country with the highest concentration of startups in the world. Over the past 63 years, thousands of Israeli startups have given rise to innovations in fields as diverse as irrigation; GPS navigation; and cherry tomatoes, including a 3D printed car. READ MORE
In the same vein as Imas, John Dearie and Courtney Geduldig said in their Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy (2013) that they launched an effort in April of 2011 to understand the nature and scope of the damage to U.S. labor markets of the Great Recession and, if possible, identify new ways to enhance the economy’s job-creating capacity. Shortly after they began their investigation, they learned of research that demonstrates how virtually all net new job creation in the United States over the past 30 years has come from businesses less than a year old—true “start-ups.”