Ernst & Young's Strategic Growth Markets - Ernst & Young - United States

Ernst & Young LLP conducted a deep analysis of business activity among Russell 2000® companies in the second half of 2009, exploring how the group drives growth in this economy.

In A world of opportunity, country winners from our Entrepreneur Of The Year® program offer their insights into the challenges -- and opportunities -- that globalization brings. They explore the challenges of leading a global workforce, the role of government in business and the new global economic status quo.

Read Leader to leader (pdf, 1.6mb)  to find out why Ernst & Young is the leading advisor to high-growth companies and how we address the growth imperatives and challenges of Russell 2000 companies, large private companies, venture capital investees, private equity portfolio companies, IPO-bound companies, cleantech companies and entrepreneurs.

US venture capital (VC) investment in cleantech companies in Q4 2009 decreased 45% to $564.5 million compared to the prior quarter while the number of deals increased 21% to 62, according to an Ernst & Young LLP analysis based on data from Dow Jones Venture Source.

Activity in the IPO pipeline reached a two-year record in the fourth quarter of 2009, meeting pre-recession levels with 53 companies entering into registration, 30 IPOs launched and the overall pipeline increasing to 54 registrants seeking to raise $10.3 billion, according to the Ernst & Young LLP US IPO Pipeline study. Learn more about going public in Ernst & Young’s guide to going public – Lessons from the leaders (pdf, 1.9mb) .

Diversity no longer refers to just race or gender. It includes age, culture, educational background, skills, personality, education and life experiences. The new global mindset: driving innovation through diverse perspectives discusses four key techniques to develop an inclusive mindset to foster innovation and economic growth.

In September 2009, we asked a group of future market leaders - participants in the global Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award - what their priorities were coming out of the global financial crisis. What lessons had they learned? Most of them are actually thriving in the downturn - see how.

Global economic recovery depends on the proven relationship of entrepreneurship and innovation to economic growth. Leveraging Ernst & Young's multidecade engagement with the world's best entrepreneurs and high-growth companies, and the extensive community we have built around them, this paper argues there's no time like now to take advantage of entrepreneurial thinking to lead the marketplace back to health. It provides a point of view about the entrepreneurial mind set and why "You're never too big to be an entrepreneur."