Dispatches from the Frontier
Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
The Coming Collapse of the Entrepreneurial Frontier?
Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
The Coming Collapse of the Entrepreneurial Frontier?
To an encouraging, possibly unprecedented, degree, people are finding entrepreneurial success outside of the urban mainstream. However, the very conditions that have created opportunity also harbor a trap – a trap that could lead to a cascade of costly failures that frontier communities can ill-afford. Is the collapse of the economic frontier inevitable? No, but to avoid the loss of hard-won momentum, entrepreneurs, economic development professionals, and other community leaders need to be thinking – and acting – a few steps ahead of the game.
So begins my latest essay, which seems to have transmogrified into a kind of manifesto.