About the Entrepreneurship Degree
A degree in entrepreneurship opens the door to the exciting opportunity of not just partaking in the business world, but starting your own business from scratch. Entrepreneurship degrees focus on the crucial skills needed to manage a small corporation and invest in your revolutionary ideas.
Small businesses are an integral part of the community and are especially important during the recession. According to the United States Small Business Association, small businesses:
- provide approximately 75% of the net new jobs added to the economy
- represent 99.7% of all employers
- employ 50.1% of the private work force
- provide 40.9% of private sales in the country
- account for 39.1% of jobs in high technology sectors in 2001
- account for 52% of private sector output in 1999
- represent 97% of all US exporters
There is a blog from Wall Street Journal dedicated exclusively to the world of entrepreneurship. Check out Independent Street to read more about this exciting field.
As ecommerce grows, so will its impact on the overall economy. An even larger increase in economy wide productivity levels may result from productivity gains by business firms and companies not engaged in e-commerce as they respond to this new source of competition. Businesses recognizing this new opportunity and seeing the potential impact of e-commerce is important for policy makers, and forecasters as they project economic activity for the future.