NEWSRELEASE
For Release: June 23, 2005
Contact: John McDowell, (202) 205-6941
john.mcdowell@sba.gov
SBA Number: 05-28 ADVO
Press Kit
Report Details Relationship Between Home Computer
Ownership And Entrepreneurship
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new report released today by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) details the relationship between home computer ownership and entrepreneurship. The report indicates that home computer owners are slightly more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-owners.
“Home computer ownership has dramatically increased over the last two decades,” said Dr. Chad Moutray, Chief Economist for the Office of Advocacy. “We thought that home computer ownership might help to explain entrepreneurship rates among men and women and might also influence what fields they entered. This report shows that it does, but not to a large degree. Moreover, it shows that home computer owners start a wide variety of businesses and don’t concentrate in any one field.”
Moutray made the remarks and released the report during a meeting with officials of the Alexandria, Virginia Chamber of Commerce and Small Business Development Center. The report, Technology and Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Industry Analysis of Access to Computers and Self-Employment was written by Robert Fairlie a noted expert on self-employment, with funding from the Office of Advocacy.
The Office of Advocacy, the “small business watchdog” of the government, examines the role and status of small business in the economy and independently represents the views of small business to federal agencies, Congress, and the President. It is the source for small business statistics presented in user-friendly formats and it funds research into small business issues.
For more information and a copy of the report, visit the Office of Advocacy website at
www.sba.gov/advo.###
The Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent voice for small business within the federal government. The presidentially appointed Chief Counsel for Advocacy advances the views, concerns, interests of small business before Congress, the White House, federal agencies, federal courts, and state policy makers. For more information, visit
www.sba.gov/advo, or call (202) 205-6533.