Still Waiting: Green Card Problems Persist for High Skill Immigrants – NFAP Policy Brief June 15, 2012 Calling an increase in wait times for high-skilled foreign nationals to get green cards to stay in the United States a threat that could “deprive the country of talented individuals who will choose to develop innovations, make their careers and raise their families in other nations,” the National Foundation for American Policy released this report, which says wait times are likely to increase in employment-based immigration categories.
College 2.0: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Reforming Higher Education June 7, 2012 High school class of 2012 graduates will soon find themselves entering a higher education system facing unprecedented challenges — and skyrocketing college costs are only part of the problem. In this report, a panel of education leaders and policy experts identify critical challenges facing U.S. higher education and offer ambitious solutions to reform — and reinvent — the system itself.
Post-IPO Employment and Revenue Growth for U.S. IPOs, June 1996–2010 May 21, 2012 While Initial Public Offerings like Facebook’s make front page news, life after an IPO and its impact on the broader economy have not been looked at in-depth. A Kauffman Foundation report examines the little-studied employment and revenue growth performance of all domestic operating companies that have made IPOs over the past 15 years and offers insights for policymakers.
The Rise of Fractional Scholarship May 11, 2012 Underemployed post-graduate researchers represent a vast, untapped resource that could be harnessed to address America’s thorniest scientific challenges, according to this report. The paper suggests that “fractional scholarship” could employ surplus scholarly expertise to advance scientific research, much as distributed computing projects – which recognize that most computers are largely idle during their lifetimes – utilize spare computational cycles to seek answers to complicated problems.
We Have Met the Enemy And He is Us: Lessons from Twenty Years of the Kauffman Foundation’s Investments in Venture Capital Funds and the Triumph of Hope Over Experience May 7, 2012 A compelling report out from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation describes how most institutional investors, including larger state pension funds, endowments and foundations, may be shortchanged by their investments in venture capital funds.
Valuing Health Care: Improving Productivity and Quality April 19, 2012 Cost trends in U.S. health care consistently increase at about 2.5 percentage points faster than the general rate of inflation – clearly an unsustainable rate. To address what it called “America’s most urgent public policy problem,” the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation released a report that focuses on improving the cost-benefit balance in American health care through open access to medical data.
The Global Innovation Policy Index March 17, 2012 In the midst of intense global competition for innovation supremacy among countries, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation released one of the most comprehensive assessments ever undertaken of countries’ innovation policies.
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.
A License to Grow: Ending State, Local and Some Federal Barriers to Innovation and Growth in Key Sectors of the U.S. Economy February 9, 2012 This white paper outlines some of the remaining state barriers and a few federal ones and how they prevent disruptive innovations by entrepreneurs and established firms alike that potentially could bring new and more efficient business models to the market.
Who Are User Entrepreneurs? Findings on Innovation, Founder Characteristics, and Firm Characteristics February 1, 2012 A study released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation shows that “user entrepreneurs” have founded more than 46 percent of innovative startups that have lasted five years or more, even though this group creates only 10.7 percent of U.S. startups overall.