Results from the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) Baseline and First Follow-up Surveys March 1, 2008 The data from both the Baseline and First Follow-Up Surveys provide an understanding of how businesses are organized and operate in their first two years of existence (2004 and 2005), and provide some indicators of survival and growth.
Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain August 17, 2007 More than one million skilled immigrant workers, including scientists, engineers, doctors and researchers and their families, are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain-drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to this report. The situation is even bleaker as the number of employment visas issued to immigrants from any single country is less than 10,000 per year with a wait time of several years.
Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration June 11, 2007 This report tracked the educational backgrounds of immigrant entrepreneurs who were key founders of technology and engineering companies from 1995 to 2005 shows a strong correlation between educational attainment (particularly in science, technology, engineering and math) and entrepreneurship.