The National Bureau of Economic Research is calling
for papers for their NBER Conference on Income and Wealth, Measuring Entrepreneurial
Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges. The conference will be attended
by economists, statisticians and analysts from government, academia, business,
and non-profit organizations that desire to understand better statistics in
measuring the success of entrepreneurship. It will be held in Washington DC in
December 2014.
Background
Entrepreneurial businesses are dynamic contributors to economic growth, job creation, and innovation; however, our ability to accurately track how businesses perform in a complex economic and financial environment is hampered by difficult measurement challenges. In addition, there are conceptual challenges that interact with measurement – e.g., distinguishing between self-employment and entrepreneurship. A better understanding of the lifecycle of these businesses and the challenges they face is important for our understanding of the contribution of these businesses to jobs, productivity and innovation.
Paper submission topics on
entrepreneurship include:
- Economic Growth and Job Creation
- Business Dynamics
- Owner and Business Characteristics
- Innovation
- Regulatory and Tax Environment
- Financing and Access to Capital
- Geographic Considerations/Regional Clusters
- Globalization and Trade
- Emerging Economies and Economic Development
- Evidence-Based Policy Analysis
- Data and Research Gaps
NBER
It is a non-profit
non-partisan organization that seeks to understand how the economy works. They
attempt to use disperse scientific based research to the general public. They
have a number of papers they publish each week. You may access them at http://conference.nber.org/new.html
Deadline
August 15th, 2013
