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The Annual USASBE Conference recently took place in Nashville, TN (January 14–17, 2010). The importance of this Conference and similar events to the field of entrepreneurship cannot be overstated. Such Conferences must become the first destination for entrepreneurship scholars. Much can be gained, of course, by attending the Academy of Management, Allied Social Sciences Association and other professional meetings sponsored by the so-called “parent” disciplines. However, it is time to reverse the intellectual capital flow! It is the field of entrepreneurship that has the room for dynamic growth other disciplines may lack. For the full extent of this growth to be realized, entrepreneurship scholars must exchange ideas, network and foster the development of the field at Entrepreneurship Conferences. Similarly, the best of entrepreneurship research should be submitted to those journals dedicated to entrepreneurship, instead of those journals for which entrepreneurship articles are considered second class citizens. It’s a win-win situation! The articles included in this issue of the Journal certainly fit in the category of the best in entrepreneurship research. I want to thank the authors and reviewers involved with the issue! I hope our readers will find these studies to be both interesting and useful. The study by Maribel Mojica, Tesfa Gebremedhin and Peter Schaeffer deals with one of the most important challenges faced by entrepreneurship: the alleviation of poverty. Even more significantly, A County-Level Assessment of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Appalachia Using Simultaneous Equations uses the region of Appalachia as the background. The authors empirically estimate the effects of entrepreneurship on economic growth and development and offer appropriate policy implications. Entrepreneurial undertakings face a number of significant challenges. Financing each level of the business under various conditions of adversity is certainly one of the most serious of such challenges. The two articles that follow, Lynn Neeley’s and Howard Van Auken’s Differences Between Female and Male Entrepreneurs’ Use of Bootstrap Financing and Microfinance in Cultures of Non-Repayment by Marc Epstein and Kristi Yuthas present two useful perspectives on the issue. Norman Wright, Jeff Caneen, Nathan Alexander and Andrew Gomez also deal with financing issues. Their Conservation Area Start-Ups: Combining Theory and Practice applies previous research to small, indigenous start-ups in and around conservation areas. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship Vol. 15, No. 1 (2010) 1–2 © World Scientific Publishing Company DOI: 10.1142/S1084946710001415
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