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Newsroom: National News Archive 2005
May
1 - 7, 2005
Renal Care sale could spawn wave of entrepreneurship
The Tennessean - Nashville, TN
By RICHARD LAWSON. Nashville's health-care industry took another step yesterday in its decades-long cycle of entrepreneurs' taking...
Sparking the entrepreneurial spirit in Keokuk high students
Keokuk Gate City Daily - Keokuk, IA
One way to grow more jobs in the region is to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit in residents beginning at a young age. A group of Keokuk educators...
Angels in America
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago, IL
"There's a lot of potential out there for women to become angel investors. But they're underrepresented ... and we'd sure like to change that," said Marianne Hudson, director...
Harmonic Devices Takes Top Prize at UC Berkeley Business Plan ...
AScribe - USA
... competition is organized annually by Berkeley MBA students and hosted by the Haas School's Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in collaboration...
Colorado Group Sees a New Silicon Valley...In the Mountains
Small Times - USA
... not only benefit society but also support regional economic development, strengthen the research base and foster entrepreneurship and innovation, Semmens
said...
Life, Liberty and Free Wi-Fi
Washington Post - Washington, DC
...Even if this strikes you as yesterday's news, the free hot zone idea is catching on all over the country...
New eatery gives Colgate juniors taste of entrepreneurship
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY
... These sessions and all of the judged events were overseen by Colgate alumni and staff members with backgrounds in entrepreneurship and business
development...
KIZ funds OK'd
Sunbury Daily Item - Sunbury, PA
...The Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) program accelerates economic growth and promotes collaboration between colleges, universities, local economic developers, local government...
Wisconsin a business standout
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee, WI
...The annual report cards of the Corporation for Enterprise Development consistently have shown the state to rank very low in new-business formation over the...
Florida Universities Increase Intellectual Property and Licensing ...
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...
SD, Nebraska Towns Join Forces
Yankton Daily Press - Yankton, SD
"None of us are a small-town economy anymore," he said. "We need an area economy, drawing together towns like Yankton, Vermillion, Ponca and
Niobrara." What started as dialogue...
May
8 - 14, 2005
Common products? Not hardly
Kansas City Star - MO
...Innovation" stories this week to members of the Product Development and Management Association's Heartland chapter in a meeting at the Kauffman
Foundation...
Industry veteran Ken Lee discusses innovation economy and VC
trends
Triangle Tech Journal (press release) - Research Triangle Park, NC
... 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...
When It Comes to Patents, Small Is Beautiful
Tech Central Station - Richfield, OH
...The system also needs to be available to all creators, large and small, to allow innovation to flourish throughout the
economy...
Cassady aims for innovation
Corvallis Gazette Times - Corvallis, OR
...Innovation Campus is an example of just such a place, he added ... He believes it also will stimulate the local economy by attracting new corporations and creating...
Will New Bankruptcy Law Stifle Entrepreneurship?
Fortune - USA
...But experts on entrepreneurship say that the law's main objective--holding Americans more responsible for paying off their consumer debt--may have...
Indiana Acts To Support Small Business
Small Business Association Office of Advocacy - Press Release
Indiana small businesses will face a friendlier regulatory environment, thanks to a new law that gives Indiana’s small businesses a voice in the state’s regulatory process...
Rankings stress education factor
Baton Rouge Advocate - Baton Rouge, LA
A national research firm has ranked 394 areas of the country for entrepreneurship and innovation, and there's good news and bad news for Louisiana in the ...
This Is Not Your Father's MBA
BusinessWeek - USA
administrators at Rensselaer decided to tear apart the traditional MBA curriculum. In its place they began building a new program from scratch -- and when the dust settled...
Medical device company wins MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA
...Forum in the US and the around the world to grow and enhance their own unique entrepreneurial ecosystems to enable innovation and entrepreneurship -- this is...
Biomed Rounds: Mass. Tech Transfer Center joins life sciences race
Boston Mass High Tech - Boston, MA
...by implementing programs aimed at increasing the quantity and quality of new technologies transferred, educating researchers on entrepreneurship and bringing...
Jopari Completes Financing Round With Sierra Angels
Press Release - USA
Jopari Solutions, Inc., the leader in proprietary payments automation and advanced web portal services for the insurance industry, today disclosed successful closing of a venture funding round through Sierra Angels, a group of angel investors...
Break into the $7,000 purse biz, in 5 not-so-easy steps
USA Today - USA
... "Entrepreneurs gravitate to environments where they make their own rules," says Carl Schramm, CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a non-profit focused...
University entrepreneurship center taps AOL alum
Washington Business Journal - Washington, DC
He will work with the university's MBA students who are developing business plans and looking for seed funding. Walsh created AOL...
Entrepreneur Association Hosts 20th Annual Entrepreneurs
Conference
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA
... alumni, entrepreneurs and business executives attend this premiere event to gain valuable insight on current topics in entrepreneurship, critical business...
Harvard Business Review Identifies the Problem With Today's MBA...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... ill-equipped to wrangle with complex, unquantifiable issues' is tremendous validation for what we are doing at the Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship program," said...
Small biz gets big seat at Alliant table
Washington Technology - Washington, DC
At $15 billion, the General Services Administration's Alliant Small Business contract is the biggest vehicle ever developed just for small businesses...
Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship gets leader
Kansas City Business Journal - Kansas City, MO
The Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship was created through the 2004 Kansas Economic Growth Act to foster an entrepreneurial climate in Kansas, the Commerce...
Rural Hall is home to a cluster of businesses run by folks who
want to be their own boss
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem, NC
...Cantando said that studies by the Kauffman Foundation have found that a big challenge for women who own businesses is a feeling of isolation and not having...
The State of Women's Entrepreneurship: Progress and Promise
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
...We invite you to attend -- either in person or virtually -- an important one-hour event that will summarize the progress and promise of women's entrepreneurship...
Applying business skills in social area
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison, WI
Students who took the class "Social Entrepreneurship: Redefining Markets and Organizations" said the course opened their eyes to a world possibilities...
May
15 - 21, 2005
The Amazing Rise of the Do-It-Yourself Economy
Fortune - USA
...is a tremendous change in awareness," says Eric von Hippel, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of the recent Democratizing Innovation...
Veterans Use Educational Training
Missourian Publishing - Washington, MO
...Mueller runs a 12-session weekly business start-up course for military veterans through the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation's FastTracª entrepreneur...
Recent studies indicate self-employment on the rise ...
Feature Xpress (press release) - USA
... economy, according to Powell. "Entrepreneurship is central to the economy," said Powell, "fueling innovation, productivity and growth...
LSU business incubator wins top honors
BizNewOrleans.com - Metairie, LA
...received the National Business Incubation Association’s highest award for incubator excellence at the International Conference on Business Incubation...
From Stanford Engineering to Social Innovation
Stanford Daily - USA
Can a water pump help alleviate poverty? Our social innovator of the week, Martin Fisher, has spent the last 15 years proving that it can...
Entrepreneurship -- a career alternative
Citizen - Fayetteville - Fayetteville, GA
Self-employment and entrepreneurship offers many things that are no longer guaranteed in corporate America. Job security, control...
2005 Knowledge Worker Quotient: America's Super Cities of the Future
Expansion Management - Cleveland, OH
... that offer a bright future, will be found in the knowledge economy, a constantly evolving sector that relies almost entirely on innovation and entrepreneurship...
University funding integral to innovation economy
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena, CA
... I refer to the confidence in our high-tech businesses as the "innovation economy," which now relies more than ever on university
research...
Exploding the myths of offshoring : Mckinsey
Always On - USA
The current debate over the offshoring of US jobs misses the mark Short-term disruption from job losses must be weighed against the much broader benefit to US consumers and businesses...
May
22-28, 2005
GM Honors Top Innovators of 2004
Autochannel - USA
...The "Boss" Kettering Award is GM's highest award for recognizing GM technical inventions and innovations. Its purpose is to honor individuals from every...
UNO has entrepreneurship plan
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
The University of New Orleans is preparing to offer the metro area's first bachelor's degree program in entrepreneurship, saying it can help rejuvenate the ...
Entrepreneur network gets grant
Charleston Gazette - Charleston, WV
...Ashland Area Innovation Center, the Center for Economic Options, the Charleston Area Alliance, the state Department of Education entrepreneurship programs and...
Readers Debate Bankruptcy and Entrepreneurship
Fortune - USA
Earlier this month, in my column, Will New Bankruptcy Law Stifle Entrepreneurship?, I wrote that the law's tougher stance on consumer debt could stifle the...
The art of economic growth
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report - Baton Rouge, LA
...The report concludes that both "entrepreneurship (new firms and growing firms) and innovation (patents, R&D, and hi-tech industries) are drivers in the growth...
Best Practices In State Initiatives Spurring Market-Based
Economic Development Now AVailable
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
..."These presentations provide a blueprint for others to follow and can help
all regions of the country jump-start their local economic development...
Taking care of business
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore, MD
...As director of the ESI, Cassidy also oversees credit and noncredit courses related to entrepreneurship, and helps students create a course map that
will...
Training tomorrow's leaders
Charlottesville Daily Progress -
Charlottesville, VA
...While its interests and goals are most broadly oriented toward promoting entrepreneurship and innovation, the institute has honed its focus to the fields of...
Innovation, the Best Investment
BusinessWeek - USA
...and the federal government could boost the economy by getting its fiscal house in order.) When it comes to economic growth, creativity, innovation, and risk ...
Trump University: You're Wired!
BusinessWeek - USA
With business schools around the country using Donald Trump's reality TV vehicle The Apprentice as a teaching tool, perhaps it was just a matter of time before The Donald cut out the middleman...
Daviess County Partners With Ball State University on Entrepreneurship Program
Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis, IN
Building Better Communities program in an effort to empower Hoosiers to start or expand their businesses. The City of Washington...
The Big Squeeze
MSNBC - USA
... America's strengths--innovation and entrepreneurship--remain formidable and should keep its middle class relatively prosperous, despite the gains being made...
Richard Florida, Tracking the 'Creative Class'
NPR (audio) - Washington, D.C.
...and health-care professionals are the ones who drive American business innovation... is not the creative classes really good growth sector of our economy in...
Frost working to boost Texas entrepreneurship
Texarkana Gazette - Texarkana, TX
...is hard at work in Austin to create jobs, which is evidenced in his help recently to pass a bill creating and funding the Texas Entrepreneurship Network (TEN)...
Entrepreneurship: When the entrepreneur is the bottleneck
Pittsburgh Post Gazette -
Pittsburgh, PA
By Jack Roseman. It's hard to imagine when you're looking for that first pre-seed dollar, but the day may come when business really ...
Youngsters can learn business skills this summer at Camp CEO
The Southern - Carbondale, IL
CARBONDALE - Lessons in wheeling and dealing can be learned by youth at the Illinois Entrepreneurship Network's CampCEO this summer at Southern Illinois ...
Looking for a Job or a Change? Then Ride the Big Wave of Entrepreneurship
in 2005
Local Tech Wire - Fort Mill, SC
...if you have any interest in starting your own business, now is the time to get your feet wet and to ride the wave of entrepreneurship...
May
29-June 4, 2005
Analysts
warn law may stifle business
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... to start businesses, says Robert Litan, vice president of
research and policy at the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion
Kauffman Foundation, which supports ...
Are you an angel?
Always On - USA
It was worth the trip: my friends from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation were there, and Marianne Hudson,
executive director of the Angel Capital ...
Students succeed as entrepreneurs
The Duke Chronicle - Durham,N.C,USA
... This fall, the economics department will offer a course on entrepreneurship and innovation taught by Jon Fjeld, adjunct professor in the Fuqua School of ...
Civic Innovation Lab Names New Mentors
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... projects and providing more than $300,000 in grants, the Civic Innovation Lab, an ... brought more than $32 million dollars to Northeast Ohio's economy through the ...
Two
trustees donate $2 million for project
The Jackson Citizen-Patriot - Jackson,MI,USA
... of a $33 million construction and renovation project under way
on campus, which includes the $1 million Center for Entrepreneurship
and Innovation, the Ganton ...
The Observer: Fanning The Flames
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
The volatile combination of employment policy and a frustrated technology workforce is ... If we instead create a culture of entrepreneurship, we could provide ...
Billeo Named Internet ''Emerging Star'' at TiEcon 2005, the ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... include successful venture capitalists, investment bankers, and policy makers, leading ... base in excess of 10,000, TiE fosters entrepreneurship through mentoring ...
A Broader View of Offshoring
BusinessWeek - USA
... I think what's driving the innovation in countries like China and India is much more of a boot-strapping mentality of, again, rapid ... Entrepreneurship took root. ...
Cargill program is incubating innovation in a corporate culture
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... Employees need to know they "still have a job," said Alec Johnson, a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas. "To catch you if you fall. ...
Brightidea Inc. Launches
Brightidea.com, First On-Demand ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Investment in infrastructure and technology that supports innovation is critical for US companies that want to remain competitive in today's global economy.". ...
The Flight From America
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... What is happening is that we're creating these tremendous peaks of economic innovation, creativity, success ... How are we going to reproduce this creative economy? ...
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