This short report examines racial differences in access to financial capital. We focus on the role of capital injections—that is, injections of financial capital in the early, formative years after the business is started.

According to this study, nearly 75 percent of most firms’ startup capital is made up in equal parts of owner equity and bank loans and/or credit card debt, underscoring the importance of liquid credit markets to the formation and success of new firms.

This report discusses the results of a survey of 652 U.S.-born chief executive officers and heads of product development in 502 engineering and technology companies established from 1995 through 2005 to determine qualities of US-born tech entrepreneurs.

 Excerpt from the overview: The Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) includes measures of establishment openings and closings, firm startups, job creation and destruction by firm size, age, and industrial sector, and several other statistics on business dynamics. The U.S. economy is comprised of more than 6 million establishments with paid employees. The population of these businesses […]

Large banks, such as Bank of America, and other U.S. firms are reducing plans to hire foreign national students due to concerns over political backlash amidst growing U.S. job losses. However, this study indicates that lessening the number of foreign national students in U.S. jobs may be detrimental to the economic health of the country by accelerating the return of talented immigrant students to their home countries.

Business startups that survive grow faster than more-established companies, according to Business Dynamics Statistics data funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. However, because entrepreneurial ventures also have higher mortality rates than older companies, they also have higher rates of job loss reflecting an “up or out” pattern.

This report examined the reasons behind the substantial number of highly skilled immigrants that had returned to their home countries, including persons from low-income countries like India and China who have historically tended to stay permanently in the United States. These returnees contributed to the tech boom in those countries and arguably spurred the growth of outsourcing of back-office processes as well as of research and development.

This study demonstrates the critical role universities play not only in fostering innovation and entrepreneurial growth, but in stimulating the much-needed recovery in regional and global economies.

The average share of employment accounted for by firms less than three years old varies widely by state, according to this analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. The Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, found that young firms account for as much as 12 percent of employment in Southwestern and Western states. In states with a lower-ranking of the share of young firms, primarily those in the East and Midwest regions, only about 6 percent of employment is accounted for by young firms.

This report shares the findings of an audit conducted across thirty school districts in which the state of science labs was assessed. The audit was conducted by SuccessLink, with funding of the project from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This study was conducted as part of the Kauffman Foundation’s multi-year agenda to improve student achievement in mathematics, science, and technology subjects in the Greater Kansas City region.