Research: PSED Consortium
Dr. William Gartner, the Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership, co-founded the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium(ERC) in 1995. The ERC is a group of more than 20 universities and agencies in North America and Europe which initiated, developed and managed the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), the first major national longitudinal dataset on nascent entrepreneurship. In November 2004, Gartner hosted the first annual Clemson University/Kauffman Foundation Symposium on the PSED, which focused on recent scholarly work on this dataset. A second annual symposium followed in November 2005, and a third in November 2006.