Blog: Research
Benchmarking Performance of High-Tech Incubators and Accelerators
Over the past year, ICIC has partnered with JPMorgan Chase to research the opportunities and challenges associated with incubators and accelerators. In this blog we share our approach and new data that we collected from eight high-tech incubators and accelerators in the U.S. Read More
Expanding Opportunity through Inclusive Entrepreneurship: Detroit Startup Week Recap
On May 23rd, ICIC released our newest report, Creating Inclusive High-Tech Incubators and Accelerators: Strategies to Increase Participation Rates of Women and Minority Entrepreneurs, in partnership with JPMorgan Chase and Co., at a panel called Expanding Opportunity through Inclusive Entrepreneurship at Detroit Startup Week. The following is a summary of the panel's conversation. Read More
Key Findings From Year One Of Small Business Forward
In 2014, JPMorgan Chase & Co. launched Small Business Forward, a five-year, $30 million initiative to support small businesses by connecting them to critical resources to help them grow faster, create jobs and strengthen local economies. Read More
New Study Links African-American Entrepreneurship with Decline in Youth Violence
Sociologists, criminologists and economists have spent more than a decade hypothesizing about the root causes for the 1990s' dramatic decline in urban violence. Read More
The War on Poverty and a Battle Plan for Inner City Victory
In 2014, I was honored to speak at an inspiring convening of over 400 California leaders committed to tackling poverty in their communities. Read More