Monday, January 19, 2009

KAUFFMAN-THE FOUNDATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The kauffman  foundation  which “is the 26th largest foundation in the United States with an asset base of approximately $2 billion” — concentrates its funding efforts in two areas in education and  Entrepreneurship .Its Entrepreneurship Research Portal “is a unique aggregation of resources, events and data about entrepreneurship.”Basically, this is an annotated directory of links to working papers, conference papers, journal articles, reports, etc. Most of what I looked at pointed to freely accessible full-text, although that some items may require a subscription or other form of payment before you can view them.

While the rate of entrepreneurial activity has remained remarkably
 consistent over the past decade with nearly 465,000 people creating new businesses on average each month, subtle year-to-year shifts in the gender, demographic, geographic and ethnic make-up are changing the public face of the American entrepreneur. This is according to a national assessment of entrepreneurial activity by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.The Kauffman Foundation has released a new report on increasing young Entrepreneurship in the US economy. 

The report’s foundational assumption is that entrepreneurs have created most of the new technologies and business models that have fueled our nation’s staggering productivity growth in the past few decades.Ensuring a skilled workforce” by improving K-16 education and beyond in math, science, and young Entrepreneur thinking, as well as making it easier for skilled and educated immigrants to work in the US.

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