This study had some interesting findings. For those of you who don't want to read the whole thing: - "Denver had the highest entrepreneurship rate at 0.45 per

This study had some interesting findings. For those of you who don't want to read the whole thing: - "Denver had the highest entrepreneurship rate at 0.45 percent. The comparison across MSAs reveals that Silicon Valley did not have one of the highest rates of entrepreneurship during the late 1990s." - "The rest of California and several large MSAs had higher rates of entrepreneurship than Silicon Valley during the late 1990s." - "During the post boom period, entrepreneurship rates were higher in all but one year [as compared to the boom period]." The paper hypothesizes that the boom "suppressed" entrepreneurship in the Valley during the 90s. - "Entrepreneurship rates in Silicon Valley increased from 0.31 percent in the period of strong economic growth in the late 1990s to 0.35 percent in the post-boom period of the early to mid 2000s."