I returned this weekend from the Aspen Institute’s annual meeting of development entrepreneurs in New York where fresh thinkers were hard at work looking for new approaches to impactful international economic development. USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah sought out the opportunity to present his new vision for his agency, and Carl Schramm, President of the Kauffman Foundation, challenged the traditional strategic and intellectual platform that has driven the tired policies of decades of Washington consensus thinking around how we stimulate global economic growth.
As I listened to discussions at the ANDE meeting, it became clear to me that my assumption that we all agreed on the importance of young startups as the primary drivers of economic growth and poverty reduction was one not commonly held. That, along with there being a keen interest among ANDE members in focusing now on “measuring impact” over messy, experimental “entrepreneurial capitalism” leads me today to post on one of my favorite topics – our common progress (or lack thereof) in “measuring entrepreneurship” around the world.
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Author: Jonathan Ortmans is president of the Public Forum Institute, a non-partisan organization dedicated to fostering dialogue on important policy issues. In this capacity, he leads the Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship, focused on public policies to promote entrepreneurship in the U.S. and around the world. In addition, he serves as a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.
