The National Entrepreneurship Study is a research initiative, intended to increase understanding of the environmental factors that form barriers to, or enhance, the climate for entrepreneurship.

Goal
Barriers to entrepreneurship can either be mitigated by government policies, or alternatively, are sometimes actually rooted in government policy. Therefore, increasing the understanding of factors that are contributing to or impeding the success of entrepreneurs will provide the basis for recommending policy change to increase the success of entrepreneurs and economic growth.

Strategy
The NES is an in-depth look at regional economic growth and the experience of entrepreneurs in that region.

Phase One of NES, co-led by Prof. Amar Bhide of Columbia University and IIM-Bangalore, was launched in June of 2003. Phase One will include studies of Bangalore and a second region, yet to be determined.

In addition to becoming an important tool for policy development, the findings of Phase One of NES, which will include over 100 case studies of local entrepreneurs in each region, should serve other purposes, including: contributing to academic research in entrepreneurship, providing information for shaping funding agency programs, developing non-profit organization strategy, and refining entrepreneurial development education.

Watch this space for further information on the study and its findings.