Entrepreneurship Resources
The Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative was established in 2005. Based in the College of Agriculture, the Initiative's goal is to To create the foremost program for training and developing high growth agricultural entrepreneurs in the United States.
Based in the NSF Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, the Foundry’s mission is optimize the early formative stages of startup companies by providing experienced support for the transition from technological innovation to business opportunity. The Foundry strives to stimulate and nurture technology-led innovation and entrepreneurship in the expanding biobased sector.
The goal of the Entrepreneurial Studies program is to provide the knowledge and skills needed to create value through recognizing and developing opportunities.
The SBDC provides free in-depth quality assistance to small businesses in all areas that promote growth, expansion, innovation, increased productivity and management improvement. Iowa SBDC is funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Iowa State University Research Park, a rapidly growing technology community of more than 50 companies, many of whom have direct ties with teaching and research mission of Iowa State University.
The Center has two primary objectives: to create a culture that encourages entrepreneurship and innovation, and to provide the tools necessary for building and improving Iowa's businesses.
Veterinary Entrepreneurship @ ISU
External Opportunities
I-Corps is a public-private partnership program that teaches grantees to identify valuable product opportunities that can emerge from academic research, and offers entrepreneurship training to student participants.
Primer on social entrepreneurship from the Skoll Fondation.
Social entrepreneurship overview (with links) from the Free Management Library.
Social Edge is the social entrepreneurship resource page sponsored by the Skoll Foundation.
The University Network for Social Entrepreneurship works with professors and researchers, practitioners, and students to develop social entrepreneurship as a vocation and carry its principles into other disciplines and sectors. (Registration required for
Academic Social-E sites
Located at Duke University, the CASE site includes social entrepreneurship case studies and an extensive collection of social entrepreneurship resources.
The goal of the Center for Social Innovation is to inspire and educate social innovators, providing knowledge and ideas that strengthen the capacity of current and future leaders to champion social change.
The Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard University.
Professional Associations
Ashoka is a global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs.
The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs provides seminars, workshops and consulting services for social entrepreneurs in the United States and around the world.
SEA convenes a growing network of innovative leaders to promote awareness of social enterprise and provide opportunities to collaborate and network across sectors, geographies and missions.
Social Enterprise Coalition is a British-based social entrepreneurship site.
Social-E Foundations
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides unparalleled platforms at the country, regional and global levels that highlight social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems in an innovative and effe
The Skoll Foundation's mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs.
Article Sources
ABI/Inform has been a premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains content from 1000+ journals and includes full-text access to the Wall Street Journal since 1984.
Business Insights Essentials is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Business Source Elite is a major indexer of business literature. It includes full-text access to the Harvard Business Review.
EconLit, produced by the American Economic Association, provides access to more than 400 journals and books in economics and the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE).
Conference Proceedings and Working Papers
EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software. Lots of entrepreneurship related materials in here!
Sponsored by the Kaufman Foundation, the Entrepreneurship Research Portal highlights the foundation's latest sponsored research efforts.
Browsable papers from the annual conference on entrepreneurship. Indexing goes back to 1981, full text is available from 1994 -.
GEM is a academic research consortium that provides high-quality international research data on entrepreneurship.
Affiliated with Brock University in Canada.
Proceedings and papers from numerous conferences including the Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ASBE), the Small Business Institute (SBI) and the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).
Online Magazines and Journals
Academic Entrepreneurship Sites
Babson College Entrepreneurship site.
Harvard's center for entrepreneurship. Includes links to cases and notes of interest to entrepreneurs and video interviews of successful Harvard entrepreneurs.
e-Web is maintained by Jerome Katz.
Links to numerous entrepreneurship topics including MBA papers from the University of Central Arkansas.
Educator's Corner includes an extensive searchable database of video clips and podcasts of entrepreneurial thought leaders; reading lists; case studies; and links to conferences, foundations, and groups that support entrepreneurship education.
Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering.
Foundations
The Coleman Foundation funds educational institutions offering entrepreneurship education throughout the United States.
Provides information, research and educational experiences that support entrepreneurship. Focus is primarily on second-stage companies, those that have grown past the startup stage but have not grown to maturity.
The Kauffman Foundation develops and funds programs, research and communications that encourage people of all ages to engage in, and be supportive of, entrepreneurship.
Professional Associations
- ASBE -- Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship
- FBD - Federation of Business Disciplines
- International Council for Small Business - ICSB
- National Federation of Independent Business
- National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
- SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business"
- Small Business Institute
- USASBE --- United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
ABI/Inform has been a premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains content from 1000+ journals and includes full-text access to the Wall Street Journal since 1984.
Business Insights Essentials is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Business Source Elite is a major indexer of business literature. It includes full-text access to the Harvard Business Review.
A comprehensive collection of industry market research reports. Each report includes information about industry conditions, competitors, and supply chain Includes reports for the US, UK and China.
Lexis-Nexis Academic covers industry and market news from major news sources and business publications. Content is generally full text.
With Company Dossier, you can do a search on a company and retrieve extensive information from a number of sources, including Hoover's, Disclosure, analyst reports, and the Directory of Corporate Affiliations.
Mergent Online contains in-depth data about publicly traded U.S. corporations. Included are all U.S. companies traded on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ exchanges, as well as approximately 3000 of the largest "over the counter" companies.
Specific MIS Content
The ACM Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full text from Association for Computing Machinery journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts provides broad coverage of journal articles and conference papers dealing with computer and network technology and their applications, as well as developments in theoretical computer science. Pays particular attention to journals in other engineering specialties. Coverage 1981 to present; updated monthly.
Computer Science Index offers abstracting and indexing of academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources at the highest scholarly and technical levels of computer science. The collection covers more than 6,500 periodicals and books, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s.
Engineering Handbooks online. Includes MIS topics. Defaulty view is a browse by topic. ENGnet BASE can also be searched searched directly. From CRC Press.
Produced by the American Mathematical Society, provides access to MathematicalReviews and Current Mathematical Publications dated from 1940 to the present.
Access to more than 1,400 software training videos. Sign-in is with your Net-ID and password.
Directories
- Accountants World
- Accounting Resources - AccountingWEB
- Financial Data Finder
- FinWeb: The Independent Financial Portal
- Rutgers Accounting Web (RAW)
- TaxSites.com - Tax, Accounting and Payroll Sites Directory
- The Financial Data Finder
- WebCPA
- GAO Reports
- Internal Revenue Service
- Standard General Ledger (USSGL)
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Accounting Terminology Guide (New York State Society of CPAs)
- Dispute Resolution Glossary (FINRA)
- Eldercare legal & financial terms (AICPA)
- Glossary of Analyst Research Report Terms (FINRA)
- How to read a financial report (Merrill Lynch)
- Information technology terms (AICPA)
- International business valuation terms (AICPA)
- Regulatory bodies & financial terms (AICPA)
- Terms, acronyms & abbreviations (AICPA)
- VentureLine Accounting Glossary
- American Accounting Association
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Institute of Internal Auditors
- Institute of Management Accountants
- International Federation of Accountants
- Association of Government Accountants
- Association of College and University Auditors
- National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
- Government Finance Officers Association
- Federation of Tax Administrators
- Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
- Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)
- International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
- Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)
Financial Ratios
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Budgeting Tools
MyMoney.gov is the U.S. government's website dedicated to teaching all Americans the basics about financial education. This link incorporates budgeting tools from a number of government agencies.
This is an electronic version of a publication produced by the Federal Citizen Information Center. It offers budgeting tips in a wide variety of areas including: transportation, housing, insurance and utilities.
Financial literacy program developed by VISA in partnership with consumer advocates, educators and financial institutions.
How to budget, spend and manage your money wisely from Kiplinger's.
Money savings tips from Bankrate.com.
Financial Literacy Sites
This site, developed by the American Society for Certified Public Accountants, has financial information for people in different life stages - from tweens to retirees.
Joint project of the RAND Corporation, Dartmouth College, and the Wharton School to develop innovative financial literacy programs.
Financial education basics from the NYSE, including an online interactive financial literacy curriculum.
This ia a comprehensive financial education program offered by the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) that is available in online, CD-ROM, and as a podcast.
This is the podcast version of the Money Smart program described above.
MyMoney.gov is the U.S. government's website dedicated to teaching all Americans the basics about financial education. Whether you are buying a home, balancing your checkbook, or investing in your 401(k), the resources on MyMoney.gov can help you maximize your financial decisions. Throughout the site, you will find important information from 20 Federal agencies and Bureaus designed to help you make smart financial choices.
Investing. . .Getting Started
Learn the advantages, disadvantages, risks and costs of different investments from this site sponsored by FINRA.
FINRA provides information and tools to help investors avoid problems in the complex world of investing.
The FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Investor Education Foundation supports innovative research and educational projects that give underserved Americans the knowledge, skills and tools necessary for financial success throughout life. The modules listed on this link, formatted in Micosoft Word, provide reliable educational materials for beginning investors.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sponsors this site, which provides important questions to ask financial planners about your investments.
Not just for mutual funds anymore. Includes stock and bond information, charts and screening tools. Free registration or a subscription required for some sections.
Compiled by the State Library of Iowa as part of a Smart Investing @ your library grant project, this site has information about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other investing information.