An article in today’s Wall Street Journal looked at efforts to spur entrepreneurship in St. Louis. It’s an important challenge: Research has suggested a connection between job growth and entrepreneurship. Yet rates of business formation have been declining for decades.
Bloomberg News St. Louis So what can cities do to support home-grown businesses? Perhaps not much, according to Harvard economist Edward Glaeser. “It’s not at all obvious that governments know how to promote entrepreneurship,” Mr. Glaeser says in the story.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Can Cities Do Anything to Promote Startups? - Real Time Economics - WSJ
