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Newsroom: National News Archive 2005
April
3 - 9
Berkely Center Hosts Conference of Social Entrepreneurs
Stern Opportunity (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
...This event attracted leaders in the fields of social entrepreneurship and high engagement social investing to discuss best practices, new innovations and...
Fledgling talent
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Dallas, TX
...Incubators can spark vibrant clusters, says Jonathan Ortmans, president of the Public Forum Institute, which runs the National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship...
Visiting experts teach global entrepreneurship
Stanford Daily - USA
Technology and global entrepreneurship experts from around the world are on campus today and for the rest of this week to meet and discuss their experiences...
Angel Capital Association Names Robert Goff as Recipient of Hans Severiens Award
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
...In announcing the award, Marianne Hudson, executive director of ACA and entrepreneurship director of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, sponsor of ACA, said...
Virginia Acts To Support Small Business
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Virginia small businesses will face a friendlier
regulatory environment, thanks to a new law that gives Virginia’s small
businesses a voice in the state’s regulatory process.
Wharton Learning Lab Launches Three New Simulations...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
...Wharton's Innovation Toolkit simulation is used by students in the school's Innovation and Entrepreneurship courses and was developed under the faculty...
Maine looks for ways to do more for small businesses
Portland Press Herald - Portland,ME,USA
... To big companies, according to Joseph A. Kayne, a professor of entrepreneurship at Miami (Ohio) University. Kayne will try to answer...
BIZ BITS: Butte College has what it takes to hatch a business
Mercury-Register - Oroville, CA
... That's the basis for BUTTE COLLEGE's entrepreneurship training program. Already, Butte College students and those enrolled in Butte ...
Battling brain drain
Shamokin News Item - Shamokin, PA
...announced Thursday the initiation of a program designed to attract technological industries to the area while retaining the minds and bodies of the state’s college graduates...
UC Merced sets up chair in Ruiz's name
Fresno Bee - Fresno, CA
... whose Dinuba-based company is the country's leading manufacturer of frozen Mexican food, by establishing the Ruiz Family Chair in Entrepreneurship to nurture ...
Indiana Biosensor Symposium to Highlight New Business Opportunities...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA
... strategic planning process that identified eight key science areas, including biosensors, which showed the most potential for new business formation activities ...
Austin Summit Gives Texas Entrepreneurs Some ‘Capitol' Ideas
AgNews - TX
..."Entrepreneurship accounts for more than half of the new jobs created each year in the US, along with almost half of new business system innovation," said...
April
10-16
Startups Can Win at the Patent Game, Wolf Greenfield's Gates Tells ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
...Entrepreneurs who don't discover blocking patents until they're already out raising funds can quickly lose the confidence of their potential backers...
Industry veteran Ken Lee discusses innovation economy and VC ...
Triangle Tech Journal (press release) - Research Triangle Park,NC,USA
... veteran in the life science and venture capital industries, about his outlook for 2005 and other trends in the Research Triangle region's innovation
economy...
Like Money From Heaven
Business 2.0 - USA
... The Angel Capital Association, funded by the not-for-profit entrepreneurship booster Kauffman Foundation, has signed up about 85 angel groups so far...
Snowe Bill To Help Small Businesses
SBA Office of Advocacy - USA
Small businesses will find it easier to comply with complex and confusing federal regulations, if a bill recently introduced by Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) becomes law...
Schools stress ideas, income
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... promising innovations. Efforts also are under way to start a new Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Kansas City campus. ...
Council to promote science and technology growth, innovation
Providence Business News - Providence, RI
...that will advise him and the General Assembly on how the state can best invest in science and technology and support the growth of an "innovation
economy"...
Angel investors spread their wings
Miami Herald - FL
... Supported by the Kauffman Foundation, the association serves as an information clearinghouse for the angel investor community and can help steer entrepreneurs ...
Creativity overcomes obstacles
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - USA
As Kodukula and several other Chicago-area entrepreneurs who recently won awards for their innovations can attest, devising a solution to a problem doesn't guarantee success...
Building better drugs
Boston Globe - USA
... Massachusetts has a long tradition of tool making, which, over the course of two centuries, has underpinned the state's innovation
economy...
Financial Services Industry Leaders Recognized for Commitment to Entrepreneurship Education
ArriveNet (press release) - Castle Rock,CO,USA
NEW YORK, April 11, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) today announced that three New York City-based financial ...
Innovation, Not Quotas
Washington Post - USA
The American textile industry, my industry, should stop asking the American people to bail it out because of its failure to adapt to the global
economy...
Studies Review Veterans' Entrepreneurship
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
Washington, DC - infoZine - Data on veterans' entrepreneurship is now available for use by congressional policy makers, according to Chief Counsel for Advocacy...
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Economy Speaker says rural entrepreneurs need help
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
FAIRFIELD -- A culture that supports and celebrates entrepreneurship must exist for economic development to thrive in rural states, a policy research expert on...
Build your business on 'angels' wings
USA Today - USA
...it was heavenly to be with a few hundred people devoted to one thing — investing money in new businesses. The largest gathering of private funders of start-up companies came together...
Harvard preps NFL stars to tackle life after football
Boston Herald - USA
... about 30 players to converge on Harvard's Allston campus for the NFL's inaugural crash-course program on the basics of business and entrepreneurship for star ...
April
17-23
High taxes can discourage entrepreneurs
commercialappeal.com (subscription) - Memphis, TN
To encourage entrepreneurship, communities must strike a balance between taxing enough to provide good services and keeping the tax burden low enough to make...
Inner-city entrepreneurship isn't 'Easy Street,' but some are
walking the walk
WTN News - Madison, WI
St. Timothy's Church on Milwaukee's North Teutonia Avenue is a place where people can expect to hear a thing or two about angels...
The Minority Angel Investor Network Receives Major Endorsement...
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles, CA
The Minority Angel Investor Network (MAIN) recently received a $75,000 grant from the Kauffman Foundation to develop a national...
World Leaders in Technology and Business to Help 'Energize the Global Entrepreneurial Spirit'...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
Registration opens this week for TiEcon 2005, the world's largest and most successful conference for entrepreneurs...
Rebuilding state's tech economy
Boston Globe - USA
...Massachusetts is losing population for the first time in a decade... what can be done to reverse these trends? Create a culture for entrepreneurship...
Entrepreneurship Vital for Regional Growth
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
Entrepreneurship is a vital component of regional economic growth, according to a study released today by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration...
Citrix to Help FIU Tech and Science Students Gain Greater Access...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... 10 outstanding FIU students to join the SFTA not only strengthens our partnership, but helps ensure the future of technology-based entrepreneurship in South...
Students win Burrill competition with drug delivery device
University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications - Madison,
WI
Anthony Escarcega, an MBA student in entrepreneurship, and teammate John Puccinelli, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, wrote the winning plan for...
Venture capital back in force
Rocklin and Roseville Today - Rocklin, CA
...larger supply of capital to be invested that's been sitting on the sidelines for many years," said Mark Cannice, associate professor of entrepreneurship at the...
Rules on innovation come under a legal microscope
Financial Times - UK
...the rules of innovation in America.A patent case thisweek could profoundly affect not only those who take or make American drugs but also the innovation economy...
New angel fund will watch over KC's life sciences
MSNBC - USA
One of Kansas City's most prominent technology entrepreneurs has formed a vehicle to invest in local technology and life sciences startups. Cliff
Illig...
Made Of America
Forbes - USA
...understand the range and depth of innovation in America without reading this passionately-written, all-encompassing history of entrepreneurship from Colonial...
Manufacturers learn from users' creativity
Boston Globe - USA
...the rise of such user-centered innovation is causing a tectonic shift in the way companies develop and market products...
Entrepreneurs are Maine's ticket to growth
Portland Press Herald - Portland, ME
... Unlike unemployment and personal income for which there are generally accepted measures, entrepreneurship is not as easily defined or
measured...
Entrepreneurship: Sometimes it's hard to do the right thing
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA
...In business, we are continually confronted with: What is the right thing to do? After all, the decisions affect not only you but all the stakeholders. Ethics...
Students prepare for contest
The Daily Tar Heel - USA
Ambitious entrepreneurs are tweaking their plans in preparation for this weekend’s Carolina Challenge, UNC’s first entrepreneurial competition...
Simons: Success of state's bioscience effort will depend on
leadership
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence, KS
...considerable attention was focused on the importance of the field of biosciences on the future of Kansas City, Lawrence, Kansas University, Kansas State University...
Florida's Hottest Emerging Growth Companies to Present at 2005
Florida Tech Transfer Conference
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA
... is a trade association dedicated to growing Tampa Bay's technology businesses and promoting the region as a major center of entrepreneurship and
innovation...
Prove It!
Always On - USA
Entrepreneurship is a roller coaster, my own included. Just when you wonder whether you will ever succeed, you find out in some roundabout way that you already have...
Tech Innovation Alive and Well in San Diego
Voice of San Diego - San Diego, CA
He encouraged the University of California, San Diego to support entrepreneurship and particularly "the mandate to innovate." He compared the United States to...
April
24 - 30
Studies Reveal Online Entrepreneurship Thriving
Small Business Computing - USA
... "For many people, entrepreneurship forms the cornerstone of their vision of the American dream. Fortunately, continuing innovation in technology, and...
Hoenig: Entrepreneurs are backbone of economic growth
Kansas City Star - MO
...Hoenig said one-third to one-half of domestic growth comes from entrepreneurship and that innovation results in increased productivity, which he said has been...
Guide is blueprint for 'angel investors'
Orlando Sentinel (subscription) - Orlando, FL
Answer: According to a paper prepared by the Kauffman Foundation titled "Angel Investing Group Best Practices," angel investing "has long been an important ...
Youths hear lessons in business from rappers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee, WI
... More and more, young folks are saying that they want that kind of independence, he said. "More young people are thinking about
entrepreneurship...
Babson
College/HBCUs Hold Academic Summit on Minority Entrepreneurship
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise -- Babson College and The Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Entrepreneurship Consortium will hold a Spring Collaborative Summit at...
Future beckons high-tech startups
Kansas City Star - MO
... for refining and developing products and then running clinical tests, Dockhorn said at the two-day event at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City...
UNT entrepreneurship program ranks in top 100
North Texas e-News - Denton, Texas
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- For the second year in a row, the University of North Texas entrepreneurship program has been ranked as one of the Top 100 Collegiate...
Tech Coast Angels to Conduct Angel Investing Seminar for
Prospective Investors...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA
... Content for the seminar was developed by the Kauffman Foundation, the leading center for entrepreneurial education in the
country...
Hope and wishes
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks, ND
... Center for Innovation 20 years ago, added, "Business start-ups create 45 to 50 percent of the jobs in a dynamic economy's net growth. Entrepreneurship is key...
Western entrepreneurs receive $5,000 in grants
Bowling Green Daily News - Bowling Green, KY
... "We had six very innovative teams participate this year," said Raja Bhattacharya, director of WKU's Center for Entrepreneurship and
Innovation...
Phoenix's affordability, economy draw middle class
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ
... During the past three years of the 1990s, the region boasted among the nation's highest rates of new business formation, well above places like Boston, Portland...
Of entrepreneurs and the 'creative economy'
Portland Press Herald - Portland, ME
Last week I wrote about the importance of a culture of entrepreneurship to the future of Maine's economy. ... Entrepreneurship is certainly
creative...
Study ranks Iowa low in entrepreneurship
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo, IA
... "We haven't necessarily rated the best in being a state that fosters entrepreneurship," said Tina Hoffman, a ... You also have to foster entrepreneurship."...
Innovation Moves From the Laboratory to the Bike Trail and the
Kitchen
New York Times - USA (free subscription required)
... are the first to develop many, and perhaps most, new industrial and consumer products," Eric von Hippel, head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at ...
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