Economic development once focused on attracting large employers, but there’s a growing recognition that entrepreneurship is just as valid a strategy. A surge in new business creation is reshaping ...

BUSINESS, entrepreneurship, and business entrepreneurship are closely related concepts that play a vital role in economic growth, innovation, wealth creation, and societal development.Although these ...

On August 31, 2025, Strive305 reached an exciting new milestone. What began as a local initiative in Miami-Dade County is now being recognized as a national-and even global-model for entrepreneur-led ...

Entrepreneurship, at its core, is the act of creating, organizing, and operating a new business venture along with all its risks in order to make a profit. More than a mere business undertaking, ...

As economic development leaders, we stand at an inflection point. The traditional extractive economy that concentrated wealth in Silicon Valley and major urban centers is giving way to something far ...

Entrepreneurship is important for three key reasons: bringing ideas to the market; creating jobs and sparking dynamism, while creating local wealth. It’s linked to reduction in poverty and growth in ...

From the 1960s to the mid-1980s, Western-owned or Western-controlled financial institutions governed Africa’s banking system. In 1985, everything changed when Gervais Koffi Djondo co-founded the ...