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.
Reforming Immigration Law to Allow More Foreign Student Entrepreneurs to Launch Job-Creating Ventures in the United States August 9, 2012 U.S. colleges and universities nationally are seeing increasing numbers of international students with a passion for entrepreneurship, and many of those students want to start new ventures in the United States. However, current immigration laws make it difficult – if not impossible – for these budding innovators to establish startups while in school, or to remain in the country after graduation to grow their companies and create jobs that could bolster the U.S. economy.
University Technology Transfer Through Entrepreneurship: Faculty and Students in Spinoffs August 15, 2012 Graduate and post-doctoral students are critical participants in university commercialization efforts, according to this study, which examines students’ roles in university startups and compares the functions and responsibilities of faculty, entrepreneurs and students in successfully moving university innovations to market.
Overcoming the Gender Gap: Women Entrepreneurs as Economic Drivers September 28, 2011 Research shows that startup companies—particularly high-growth startups—are the most fruitful source of new U.S. jobs and offer the economy’s best hope for recovery. However, despite the fact that about 46 percent of the workforce and more than 50 percent of college students are female, and that women have risen to top positions in corporate and university hierarchies, they represent only about 35 percent of startup business owners. Their firms also tend to experience less growth and prosperity than do firms started by men.
The 2010 State New Economy Index November 18, 2010 Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and Connecticut are the top five states at the forefront of the nation’s movement toward a global, innovation-based new economy, according to The 2010 State New Economy Index, released in conjunction with The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
Neutralism and Entrepreneurship: The Structural Dynamics of Startups, Young Firms and Job Creation September 9, 2010 Patterns of firm formation and survival help explain the extraordinary job creation by startups.