This study finds that net job growth occurs in the U.S. economy only through startup firms.

Patterns of firm formation and survival help explain the extraordinary job creation by startups.

Results from the 2004–2008 Data showed the impact of the economic crisis.

Executive Summary In 2009, the number of people reporting entry into entrepreneurial activity in the United States reached its highest point over the last fourteen years. This increased rate of entrepreneurship was seen across most demographic categories, with the largest increases coming among older individuals and African-Americans. While the West continues to have a higher […]

This paper examines an innovative new set of practices associated with the commercialization of university research developed and implemented at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

According to this study, new-business creation in the United States is remarkably constant over time.

High-growth firms account for a disproportionate share of job creation in the United States, according to this report.

The major contributors to therapeutic innovations in the 20th century have been the pharmaceutical companies, with biotechnology companies adding significantly over the last twenty-five years. However, these models increasingly have failed in translating the advances of biomedical sciences into innovative products.

This report indicates that women-owned firms have relatively underperformed men-owned firms in a number of measures. The Kauffman Foundation research tracked new businesses’ performance measures from 2004 to 2006 and correlated the data to gender based on primary owner characteristics, firm characteristics, industry and outcomes. It is third in a series of Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) studies.

Women entrepreneurs launch high-technology firms with less financial capital than men, and continue to follow a different financial strategy over time.