Shifting from the Information Economy into the Entrepreneurial Economy

As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary, we face another economic inflection point. Just as the industrial economy replaced the agricultural one, we are moving from an information economy to an entrepreneurial economy.

Data and analytics still matter, but their role is changing. As AI automates prediction, the real constraint becomes organizational design: how institutions turn information into new value.

The core challenge is building organizations that enable internal entrepreneurship—giving people the autonomy, incentives, and resources to experiment, create, and launch new ideas rather than simply optimize existing systems.

The next economy will be defined not by better forecasting, but by institutions that function more like incubators, allocating resources to possibilities and rewarding value creation.