Any city can be entrepreneurial, that's the whole point, right? But
what cities rise to the top? Well, you're in luck. A study just
released by the
University of Michigan-Dearborn found exactly that.
Excerpt:
The 2008 “eCities” study (also called "the Entrepreneurial Cities
Index”) found that many southeast Michigan municipalities “are hard at
work attracting, cultivating, building and holding entrepreneurial
firms.”
The study, conducted by iLabs, the Center for Innovation Research in
the UM-Dearborn School of Management, focuses on entrepreneurship
because of its importance to expansion and diversification of
Michigan’s regional economies and the impact small businesses have on
job creation.
This second annual UM-Dearborn study found that successful
communities work with entrepreneurial businesses to determine their
needs and carry out relationship marketing akin to private sector firms.
“Economic development agencies, local chambers of commerce, and
state agencies all are instrumental in helping bring firms to a
community,” said Timothy Davis, director of iLabs. “Successful local
governments also have professional and empowered staffs who champion
new businesses, leading them to solutions and acting as a conduit for
networking.”
Read the entire article
here.
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