The National Commission on Entrepreneurship was established to provide local, state, and national leaders with a roadmap of how to sustain and expand a flourishing entrepreneurial economy. Through research, publishing, conferences and other events, the Commission will promote an agenda that helps grow a successful entrepreneurial economy into the 21st Century. At a time of unprecedented prosperity and near-worship of leading business visionaries, promotion of entrepreneurship may seem unnecessary. Yet, ironically, entrepreneurs are the most poorly represented business community in policymaking circles .
Large companies maintain in-house government relations staffs.
Medium-sized companies lobby extensively through their trade associations. In contrast, entrepreneurs start small businesses that they intend to grow into larger companies. These firms are passing through a stage in business development and don't form the type of stable political constituency recognized by policy makers. Entrepreneurs avoid policy makers, and policy makers do not reach out entrepreneurs. As a result, our nation's political leaders fail to understand the most important economic engine in American society today.