In Search of a Second Act: The Challenges and Advantages of Senior Entrepreneurship February 12, 2014 Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging & the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Contrary to popular perception, entrepreneurship is not exclusive to the young and hip. With that message, Kauffman Foundation Vice President of Research and Policy, Dane Stangler, provided testimony to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging & […]
Declining Business Dynamism in the U.S. High-Technology Sector February 11, 2014 This white paper shows sustained declines in business dynamism across a wide swath of the U.S. economy, including the high-tech sector that has been critical for sparking economic growth in recent decades.
How Can I Create My Favorite State Ranking? September 11, 2013 State economic rankings, though popular with think tanks, policymakers, media and even some academics, cannot be taken at face value, according to this article.
The Return of Business Creation August 5, 2013 New business formation rebounded in 2011, after four years of decline, from the depths of the Great Recession.
Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity 1996–2012 April 17, 2013 As the unemployment rate fell in 2012, another economic indicator dropped too: the overall business creation rate. According to the annual Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, the 2012 rate declined slightly from 0.32 percent of American adults per month starting businesses in 2011 to 0.30 percent in 2012.
The Start Uprising: Eighteen Months of the Startup America Partnership December 6, 2012 How does a newly formed nonprofit organization tasked with helping entrepreneurs across America effectively serve startups that are in different places, in different industries and with wildly different needs? Region by region, is the central lesson this white paper.
2012 State of Entrepreneurship Address and the Startup Act for the States February 9, 2012 During the third annual State pf Entrepreneurship event, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation interim president and CEO Benno C. Schmidt, along with National Governors Association (NGA) leaders Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman and Delaware Governor Jack Markell, called for state and local government policy changes to foster entrepreneurship and accelerate economic growth. In his address, titled “A Roadmap for State Growth,” Schmidt focused on reducing state and local legal and regulatory barriers to startups and young companies, which play a significant role in U.S. new job creation.
Entrepreneurial Community in Kansas City: From Fragmented to Collaborative? November 12, 2012 Kansas City has many of the attributes it needs to become an entrepreneurial hot spot: talented innovators, investors and large firms specialized in technology and life sciences. The problem is, Kansas City is not aware of those assets. Yet.
Private Equity and Entrepreneurship: An Inequitable Match October 3, 2012 This paper discusses investment options for entrepreneurial ventures and discusses appropriateness of private equity as an option.
Then and Now: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part VII October 2, 2012 This study finds that the number of high-tech, immigrant-founded startups — a critical source of fuel for the U.S. economy — has stagnated and is on the verge of decline.