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

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.

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 A world of opportunity (pdf, 2.1mb), 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.

Our 2009 Global cleantech report shows that the world’s largest corporations are rapidly adopting cleantech products and services to gain a competitive advantage. Eighty-five percent of respondents surveyed said that their companies are accelerating the pace of cleantech adoption compared with two years ago.

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.

According to a new Ernst & Young LLP analysis of the Russell 2000 Index’s annual reconstitution, the Index now includes smaller companies than it has in any year since 1993.

New Q2 2009 analysis from Ernst & Young found venture capital investment in cleantech reached $572 million (an increase of 73% from Q1) in 48 deals, which was a doubling in number of transactions in the quarter. Asset-based financing also saw a pickup. "The quarterly uptick reflects investor confidence in the ability of cleantech companies to capitalize on market opportunities," says Joe Muscat, Americas Director of Cleantech.

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."