Enterprise Initiative

The Opportunity:

Arete worked with Robert Townsend, professor of economics, to build out an ambitious research program using Applied General Equilibrium Enterprise Economics (AGE3) to better understand the role of entrepreneurship in wealth creation and poverty alleviation in developing countries.  Arete worked with Townsend to convene with leading economists at the University of Chicago, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and to secure funding for a large-scale research program, the Enterprise Initiative   

 What we did for them:

• Convene interdisciplinary partnerships across the University
• Convene and manage University support and leadership
• Scale up and expand program scope
• Develop programs and initiatives
• Help funders achieve funding visions

Principal Investigator:   Robert M. Townsend