Healthy companies and healthy regions
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In today’s virtual world, it’s easy to downplay the significance of place. Yet when it comes to regional prosperity, geography matters. Income and job growth is not random but rather spill over from one region to another, meaning that merely being next to a prosperous region will make your own economy more vibrant...
Building scale and sustaining growth
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The past decade generated an abundance of headline events — the bursting dot-com bubble, 9-11, the banking crises, the home building meltdown, endless war, budget deficits, election cycles — the list goes on. Yet while most of us were looking the other way, a major shift occurred in the structure of the U.S. economy. From 2000 to 2010 the U.S. economy lost productive scale at a frightening pace, reversing long trends of expansion...
Did They Build That?
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Both private equity and venture capital financing dramatically accelerate sales and job growth of small and medium-sized U.S. businesses, according to a new study being released by the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies (IEGC) and Pepperdine University.
NETS versus ES-202
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Gary Kunkle, PhD; Research Fellow (2011).
Business Establishment Employment Data: NETS versus ES-202
The National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) Database provides a number of advantages over more traditional sources. NETS offers an exceptionally deep view of employment dynamics in the economy.
Spotlight on job creation
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Donald W. Walls, PhD (2011).
Private Sector Dynamics: The Key to Understanding U.S. Growth.
When it comes to generating new jobs, it's existing companies - not new startups - that have the leading role. New startups are often billed as the stars of economic growth. Yet it's actually existing, expanding companies that contribute most to U.S. job creation. In fact, from 1990 to 2008, existing companies generated 71 percent more new jobs than startups (see graph).
Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies (IEGC)
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The Edward Lowe Foundation has created a new research and education institute, the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies (IEGC). Funded through a three-year grant from The NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation, IEGC is creating new datasets and using existing data in innovative ways to track and better understand job creation and economic growth factors - with a focus on the relationship between equity funding sources and fast-growing companies.
The institute, which will be directed by Mark Lange, and the research initiative to examine the performance of exceptional growth companies through economic cycles and how they contribute to job creation and economic prosperity will be led by Doug Tatum, Gregg Cole, and Gary Kunkle PhD.
