Recent trends in economic indicators R such as unemployment rates and job growth clearly favor Nebraska. However, these trends may differ from the state’s performance in core mehasures of economic strength such as entrepreneurship, net migration and capital formation. Given this, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Bureau of Business Research seeks to track these core economic measures in Nebraska and in all U.S. states.
The state entrepreneurship index is one effort to traEck these core trends. Specifically, the index is used to track entrepreneurship in Nebraska and compare with the other forty-nine states.
The index was developed by Eric C. Thompson and William B. Walstad in Entrepreneurship in Nebraska: Conditions, Attitudes, and Actions (GBallup Press, 2008). In this report, we use the same methodology to calculate a 2010 index and compare it to the 2008 index.
