Building an Internal Learning Culture in a Foundation Kauffman Foundation summer intern Leann Caudill shares four recommendations on how to build a culture of learning inside a Foundation: Look for ways to embed a learning strategy into existing processes and structures at your foundation. Develop a robust lifecycle for your strategies and build in an explicit learning component. Build and maintain a culture that acknowledges failure and promotes continuous improvement. […]
2019 State of Entrepreneurship Address December 17, 2019 Too many communities concentrate on attracting businesses from afar instead of growing them at home. In a thriving ecosystem, entrepreneurship empowers individuals, improves standards of living, and creates jobs, wealth, and innovation in the economy. But the success of an entrepreneurial ecosystem can’t be bought; it has to be built. In the 2019 State of […]
Congressional Startup Day December 17, 2019 Connect with policymakers on your home turf. Though new businesses are vital to our country’s economic growth, many policymakers may not know about the latest startups in their states and districts and the challenges entrepreneurs face. Congressional Startup Day, formerly Startup Week Across America, is an opportunity during the annual August congressional recess for senators […]
COMETS Cooperating Scholars December 15, 2019 Principal Investigators: Lynne G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby Assistant Director/Computer Scientist: Jason Fong Graduate Students: Hsing-Hau Chen, Nahoko Kameo, Menji Kang, ?marita Natt , Yong Yang NSF REU Fellows, Undergraduates: Lauren Stabile
COMETS Codebook December 15, 2019 A detailed account of the methodologies used and choices made in building COMETS is found in Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby and Jason Fong, “Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank,” Annals of Economics and Statistics (Annales d’Economie et Statistique), Issue 115/116, December 2014, preprint at National Bureau of Economic Research […]
COMETS December 15, 2019 COMETS is an integrated database which can trace the links from government investment in R&D through the path of knowledge creation, its transmission and codification, and ultimately in many cases to commercial uses yielding a better standard of living and better jobs.
Kauffman Firm Survey December 15, 2019 The Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) is a panel study of 4,928 businesses founded in 2004 and tracked over their early years of operation, through 2011. KFS focuses on the nature of new business formation activity; characteristics of the strategy, offerings, and employment patterns of new businesses; the nature of the financial and organizational arrangements of these businesses; and the characteristics of their founders.
Kauffman Dissertation Fellows December 15, 2019 The Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship (KDF) was an annual competitive program that awarded up to 20 Dissertation Fellowship grants of $20,000 each to Ph.D., D.B.A., or other doctoral students at accredited U.S. universities to support dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship from 2003-2018. From its establishment in 2003, the KDF supported 208 dissertations on various topics […]
Entrepreneurship Data Resources December 14, 2019 The Kauffman Foundation creates data overviews that provide guidance on how to use certain datasets. The data overviews serve several purposes: 1. Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE) Data Overview The Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE) data provides a snapshot of select economic and demographic characteristics of employer firms and business owners in 2014 by the 2-digit 2012 North […]
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship December 14, 2019 Recognizing entrepreneurship research excellence.