Keyword: Entrepreneurship

Redi Reports

The Great Recession caused an unprecedented downturn in employer startups. The “startup slowdown” shifts job generation away from dynamic, young businesses, increasing the economy’s reliance on existing establishments to expand. The downturn in startups also contributes to a decrease in economic dynamism, a crucial source of market information for future entrepreneurs.…

Redi Reports

We construct a “nonemployer location quotient” to measure the industrial concentration of gig nonemployers in Colorado compared to the country as a whole. Many industries with a high density of nonemployers in Colorado have seen above- average growth in sales. Although nonemployer businesses are beneficial for the greater economy, they may lead to greater financial fragility for those who choose to establish them.…

Redi Reports

Despite the fact that they only employ their owner, there seems to exist a link between nonemployer activity and future changes in the number of employer establishments Nonemployers might become employer establishments themselves – and/or inspire other establishments to set up shop A 10-percentage point increase in the growth rate of nonemployers is associated with a 2- to 4- percentage point uptick in the growth of employer establishments.…

Webinars

Colorado Humanities and the Regional Economic Development Institute at Colorado State University feature panelists Dr. Stephan Weiler, Elizabeth Garner, Kat Papenbrock, Dr. Michael Seman, and Greg Thomason discussing the challenges in economic innovation faced by rural Coloradans, never more so than during the COVID era. Moderated by Dr.…
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