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Week of July 3 - 9, 2006

Welcome to the National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship, an initiative of the Public Forum Institute made possible by a grant from the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City. Through NDE-news, we bring you short summaries and analyses of various trends driving the innovation economy. Subscribe now to receive your weekly copy. Archived issues are available online. Links to the day's entrepreneurship stories from across the nation and around the world are posted each weekday on the NDE main page - bookmark it and stay informed about the latest entrepreneurship news.

Entrepreneurial Capitalism

In the spirit of Independence Day, we point to a recent editorial in the USA Today by Carl Schramm of the Kauffman Foundation on a theme – entrepreneurial capitalism – that he has touched on many times in speeches to policymakers and global leaders alike. At a time when war rages on in Iraq and Afghanistan, Schramm looks to economic freedom and the ‘export of entrepreneurial capitalism’ as a means to usher in a new global era of peace.

Read the editorial, Capitalism Spreads Freedom Even as Democracy Falters, at www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-06-27-capitalism_x.htm

Kauffman Campuses Initiative Continues

Continuing to push entrepreneurship education as a campus-wide opportunity, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation just announced its second Kauffman Campuses Initiative with a $35 million commitment to colleges and universities throughout the country. Combined with matching commitments from other funding partners and participating schools, more than $200 million will be directed to cross-campus entrepreneurship programs over the next five years. The Kauffman Campuses Initiative was launched in 2003 to transform the campus culture by providing entrepreneurship courses and programs within liberal arts, engineering and other disciplines outside of the business school. Each of the latest prospective Kauffman Campuses schools will be given a planning grant to develop its proposal – which will be judged by an independent panel on how innovative and sustainable it is. The grant amount will be based on each school’s commitment to entrepreneurship education across all academic fields, its unique needs, and the scope of its proposal.

Schools participating in the new grant program include Arizona State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. For a full list of schools who have been invited to submit proposals, visit www.kauffman.org.

Looking Back: The Economic Expansion of the ‘90s

A recent seminar hosted by the Hudson Center for Employment Policy featured a look at how small business owners fared during the economic expansion of the 1990s. As expected, business owners in the 1990's were more likely than wage earners to be in households classified as high income earners and wealth holders. However, the wage earners closed the gap by 2001. The findings come from a recently released report, written by Dr. Charles Ou of the SBA Office of Advocacy, and Dr. George Haynes from Montana State University. The authors find that in 2001 small business-owning households were more than twice as likely as non-owning households (57.1 percent to 25.5 percent) to be high income, and over eight times more likely (21.2 percent to 2.5 percent) to be high wealth households. However, from 1992 to 2001, the chance of being in the high income category for non-owning households increased 42.5 percent, and their chance of being high wealth increased 92 percent, whereas the chances for small business-owning households increased 24.7 and 61.8 percent, respectively.

To download the report, How Did Small Business-Owning Households Fare During the Longest U.S. Economic Expansion?, visit: www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs276tot.pdf.

For a copy of the previous report Wealth and Income: How Did Small Businesses Fare from 1989 to 1998?, visit www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs205tot.pdf.

Calling All Researchers

The SBA Office of Advocacy has put out a request for quotations (RFQ) on economic research that show the status or role of small businesses, can be a springboard for further research and can affect public policy. The solicitations include: Research on Small Business Benefits; The Impact of HUB Zone Qualified Areas on Small Business Development and Job Creation; Research on Owner Demographics; Antitrust and Small Business Research; The Impact of Energy Prices on Small Business; and many others. The deadline for submitting proposals ranges from July 26 to July 27, 2006, depending on the solicitation.

For ideas of topics Advocacy has funded in the past, see www.sba.gov/advo/research. The proposal solicitations and synopses are listed in FedBizOpps -- www.fedbizopps.gov – and search for Small Business Administration listings.

The Internationalization of Corporate R&D

A new report from the Swedish Institute for Growth Policy Studies (ITPS) examines the extent of corporate R&D internationalization, its driving forces and its potential implications for countries. Recent trends show that multinational companies increasingly distribute their innovative activities across several countries and purposefully create global R&D networks. Among the report’s key findings is that while foreign R&D is largely driven by mergers and acquisitions, strategic decisions to locate R&D close to production, markets and knowledge centers are becoming increasingly important. The report consists of several studies, covering different countries (China, India, Japan, the U.S. and Sweden), industry sectors and analytical approaches.

Download The Internationalization of Corporate R&D: Leveraging the Changing Geography of Innovation.
 

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