ABC’s recent reality TV show Shark Tank is an American version of the BBC show Dragon’s Den, which we featured in a previous post. These shows share an intriguing premise: entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of successful businesspeople, in hopes of receiving venture capital or at least a helpful critique. There are a few clips on the official homepage, and many more on Hulu.

How can we create more jobs?

“The conventional wisdom is that [small] businesses account for half of the labor force and are therefore the engine of future job creation. That’s not quite the case. The more precise factor is not the size of businesses, but rather their age,” say Carl Schramm, Robert Litan, and Dane Stangler.

Read the rest at the Wall Street Journal.