RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Necessity apparently is the mother of entrepreneurship, at least in the times of the COVIDA-19 pandemic. And North Carolina entrepreneurs are those responding at high rates, especially with so-called “high propensity” potential – the potential to create payrolls and thus jobs. These new firms could produce more than 200,000 jobs over time, according to data from NC IDEA, an economic development foundation in Durham. Nationally, the rate of new entrepreneurship is the highest it’s been in 25 years—and possibly longer. That’s according to a report released this week by the Kauffman Foundation, which found that 380 people out of every 100,000 adults—0.38 percent—became new entrepreneurs in any given month of 2020, and increased throughout 2020.