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do a much better job of assisting policymakers by testing these assertions
and by designing policy tools for effective implementation.

NOTES

1. For some examples, see Schweke and Dabson 1994; Henderson 2002; Na-
tional Commission for Entrepreneurship 2002; Sierra Business Council 2003; Cen-
tral Appalachian Network 2005; and Drabenstott 2006b.
2. A useful summary timeline is given on page 7 of Understanding Entrepreneur-
ship: A Research and Policy Report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (2005).
3. The data presented in this section comes from the Integrated Longitudinal
Business Database as interpreted in Davis, Haltiwanger, and Jarmin (2005).

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