The University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Bureau of Business Research

State Entrepreneurship Index
July 2011
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39

Index
New York
Washington
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Oregon
Louisiana
Illinois
Oklahoma
Texas
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Vermont
California
Delaware
Idaho
Wyoming
Connecticut
Kansas
Florida
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
Virginia
Rhode Island
Kentucky
Minnesota
Ohio
South Dakota
Missouri
New Mexico
Montana
Maryland
Wisconsin
Colorado
Hawaii
Georgia
Arkansas
Alaska
Iowa
Michigan

Score
2.34
2.17
2.04
1.93
1.93
1.61
1.57
1.55
1.54
1.49
1.48
1.44
1.44
1.43
1.34
1.33
1.32
1.23
1.21
1.20
1.17
1.16
1.16
1.15
1.14
1.11
1.09
1.06
0.99
0.94
0.93
0.93
0.91
0.88
0.83
0.82
0.77
0.75
0.72

2008 rank
1
3
9
12
45
16
11
15
34
14
21
8
4
42
2
6
13
17
5
28
24
25
48
50
23
27
36
40
32
19
41
38
18
37
22
10
31
46
33

Change
None
Up 1
Up 6
Up 8
Up 40
Up 10
Up 4
Up 7
Up 25
Up 10
Up 10
Down 4
Down 9
Up 28
Down 13
Down 10
Down 4
Down 1
Down 14
Up 8
Up 3
Up 3
Up 25
Up 26
Down 2
Up 1
Up 9
Up 12
Up 3
Down 11
Up 10
Up 6
Down 15
Up 3
Down 13
Down 26
Down 6
Up 8
Down 6

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41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
!
!

West Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Utah
Indiana
Maine
Alabama
Nevada
Mississippi
Arizona
South Carolina
!
!

0.72
0.68
0.67
0.61
0.58
0.55
0.41
0.33
0.32
0.11
0.07
!
!

49
29
20
26
39
30
44
7
47
35
43
!
!

Up 9
Up 8
Down 22
Down 17
Down 5
Down 15
Down 2
Down 40
Down 1
Down 14
Down 7
!
!