|Topic Area Name=Policy, Regulation, and Social Factors in Entrepreneurship
|Team Members=TBD
|Primary Billing=Dr. Edward Egan
|Keywords=Policy, RegulationWomen, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Presidential Race, Female, Minority, Immigration, Regulation, Health Care, Reform, Gender, Social
|Caption=Supreme Court of the United States
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=Summary=
The goals of the McNair Center's Project topic area for Policy, Regulation, and Social Factors in Entrepreneurship research is to identify and share information on the effects of past, present, and potential future government social factors and broad sweeping policies and regulations on the entrepreneurial and small business world. Specifically, educational blog posts, wiki pages, OpEds, and academic papers will relay information ranging from presidential candidates to small businesses women in entrepreneurship and more.
=Project Outline=
==Work in Progress==
*[[Dylan Dickens]]' [[Entrepreneurship and the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]]*An [[The Affordable Care Act and Small Businesses Carlin Cherry]]'s 2016 [[Women in Entrepreneurship (Academic Paper2016) | Academic Paperissue brief]] detailing concerns the effects roles and relations of women in the Affordable Care Act on small businesseshigh tech sector.*[[Dylan Dickens]]' [[What Does A Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (Blog Post)]]*[[Veeral Shah]]'s [[Current Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policies (Wiki Page) | Dynamic Wiki Page]] tracking the policies affecting entrepreneurship or innovation that are being discussed or passed currently in Congress
==Future Work==
*A [[What's Killing Small Businesses? (Blog Post) | Blog Post]] describing the governmental and societal factors that are causing small businesses to fail
*An [[Government Regulations affecting Small Businesses(Academic Paper) | Academic Paper]] detailing the effects on small businesses directly caused by specific government-issued regulations