The Untapped Talent That Can Juice the Economy – Go Big! – More Gazelles Needed

Efforts to encourage anyone to start a business have done little for growth. Getting skilled professionals to focus on "productive" ventures makes more sense.

Trying to stimulate the economy by encouraging more people to go into business for themselves doesn’t appear to work.

Instead of trying to increase the amount of entrepreneurial talent in the economy, policymakers should provide incentives to reallocate that talent from unproductive or destructive forms of entrepreneurship to more productive forms.

By Scott Shane

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