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Read NowWhy small business programs need Impact Systems — a research-oriented synthesis of what six independent evidence bases agree on: the field is data-rich, evidence-constrained, and the fix is architectural.
Written primarily for funders and public investors in small-business support. Program operators, economic-development leaders, and technology partners are secondary readers.
Small business programs do not need better counting. They need Impact Systems: operating infrastructure that links the entrepreneur, the intervention, the outcome, and the evidence — so programs can improve impact and prove it.