eJournal USA: Economic Perspectives

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Entrepreneurship and Small Business

CONTENTS
Introduction
How Small Businesses Contribute to U.S. Economic Expansion
Small Business in U.S. History
Government's Role in Encouraging Small Business
American Bankruptcy Laws: Encouraging Risk-Taking and Entrepreneurship
So You Want to Start Your Own Small Business
Small Businesses at Work
Bibliography
Internet Resources
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U.S. Government

Small Business Administration (SBA)
http://www.sba.gov/

International Agencies

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_33956792_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

UNDP Commission on the Private Sector and Development
http://www.undp.org/cpsd/indexF.html

World Bank, Doing Business
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Default.aspx

Academic, Research and Private Resources

The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College
http://www3.babson.edu/eship/research-publications/
http://www.babson.edu/entrep/fer/

Entrepreneur.com: Solutions for Growing Businesses
http://www.entrepreneur.com/
http://www.entrepreneur.com/howto/0,5967,,00.html

Entrepreneurs' Organization
http://www.eonetwork.org/Default.aspx
With chapters in 40 countries: http://www.eonetwork.org/Public/About/Chapters.aspx

eVenturing
http://www.entreworld.org/

Family Business Network
http://www.fbn-i.org/fbn/main.nsf/doclu/home?OpenDocument

Family Firm Institute
http://www.ffi.org/
http://www.ffi.org/gentemplate.asp?cid=138

Growing Global
http://www.growing-global.com/index.asp
http://www.growing-global.com/resources.asp

Inc.com: The Resource for Growing Companies
http://www.inc.com/home/

International Council for Small Business
http://www.icsb.org/

International Family Enterprise Research Academy
http://www.ifera.org/

More Business
http://www.morebusiness.com/
http://www.morebusiness.com/getting_started/primer/

My Own Business
http://www.myownbusiness.org/index.html

The Public Forum Institute, National Dialog on Entrepreneurship
http://www.publicforuminstitute.org/nde/global/index.htm
http://www.publicforuminstitute.org/nde/entre/stories/index.htm

Multimedia and Blogs

Entrepreneur Radio
http://www.business-talk-radio.com/

Entrepreneurs & Entrepreneur Ideas
http://realentrepreneur.com/

Jim Blassingame
http://www.smallbusinessadvocate.com/

Knowledge@Wharton - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewCat&CID=12

SBTV
http://www.sbtv.com/

Small Business Trends
http://www.smallbusinesses.blogspot.com/

SMB Strategy Cast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SMBStrategyCast

The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources listed above, all of which were active as of January 2006.

Entrepreneurship and Small Business