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Newsroom: National News Archive 2005
May
29 - June 4, 2005
Energy
Industry Poised to Innovate & Build The Intelligent Network
Market Wire (press
release) - USA
... valuable insights, inspiration, as well as concrete examples of
innovation that is ... of liquefied natural gas and the
inevitability of the hydrogen economy.
Creative
Financing For Startups
Forbes - USA
... of opportunity for entrepreneurs, according to venture
capitalists taking part in a panel on creative financing at a recent
Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference ...
‘Staying
on Top' Plan Is Already Producing Results for RTP
Local Tech Wire - Fort Mill,SC,USA
... direct links between the university and business community to
accelerate innovation. ... The NC Rural Center's Institute for Rural
Entrepreneurship led a team of ...
Baseball's
home run
Boston Globe -
Boston,MA,USA
... outside of the United States. The same has traditionally been
true of American industry and entrepreneurship. For centuries, the
best ...
City,
Midlands Tech to put businesses on FastTrac
The State -
Columbia,SC,USA
... said. FastTrac is a series of proven entrepreneurial education
courses developed by the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo. ...
Catherine
Reynolds Gives $10 Million for NYU Program...
Yahoo News (press
release) - USA
... University today announced that it has received $10 million from
the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation to create a program in social
entrepreneurship that will ...
The
Design of Innovation
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
... a safe, decent product won't make you money automatically, so we
have an emphasis on innovation. ... Most people see China and India
as threats to the US economy. ...
Puts
& Calls: Region needs to embrace technology entrepreneurship
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
- Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Technology entrepreneurship drives innovation in our regional
economy. Innovation drives growth and new job creation. Growth and
...
Entrepreneurship:
A slice of Deb and her business
Record-Journal -
Meriden,CT,USA
By Mary Ellen Godin, Record-Journal staff. Editor's note: This is
one in a series of stories about female entrepreneurs and their
start-up businesses. ...
Business
leaders tout Route 1 corridor
Princeton Packet - Princeton,NJ,USA
... We already have an Innovation Zone right ... department will
become a model for other schools, with a focus on developing leaders
and encouraging entrepreneurship.
June
5 - 11, 2005
Jump-starting the start-ups
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... ASU's Edson Student Entrepreneurship Initiative, created with money from retired boat manufacturer Orin Edson, the founder of Bayliner Boat Co., will be one of ...
An Entrepreneur Who Cares
BusinessWeek - USA
... as Skoll prepared to step away from eBay's day-to-day operations, he started the Skoll Foundation, which supports the field of social entrepreneurship, or the ...
New Bankruptcy Legislation Undercuts Important Safety Net for
Entrepreneurs...
Business Wire (press release) - San
Francisco, CA
... new legislation, according to some experts on entrepreneurship, could also serve to deter would-be entrepreneurs from embarking on risky new business formation ...
WBCs Driving Entrepreneurship Among Economically Disadvantaged ...
Newswise (press release) - USA
... AWBC research study looking at Women's Business Centers (WBCs) nationwide found that these community-based programs are drivers of entrepreneurship among a ...
Winners Announced for Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
The Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures announced its selection of four grand-prize winners...
The Sharing Economy
BusinessWeek - USA
Yale law professor Yochai Benkler points to Google and Skype as examples of a new, Info Age market structure, based on peer production...
Popular Entrepreneurship Organizations Unite Under One Name
Inc.com - New York, NY
June 14, 2005--The Young Entrepreneurs' Organization and World Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO/WEO) announced Monday that it would now be called, simply, the ...
Success story with a twist
Baltimore Sun -
Baltimore, MD
An increasing number of immigrant women are entrepreneurs, according to a study by a Towson University professor for the Immigration Policy Center...
Power to the People: Do it Yourself Content Distribution
EContent (press release) -
Wilton, CT
... In his breakthrough book Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel, head of the Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of ...
How men and women approach growth strategies
Fairfield County Business Journal -
CT
... entrepreneurial market in the coming years. Let's start with some facts surrounding entrepreneurship - male and female. Then we'll look at ...
Study shows sharp decline in entrepreneurial activity
Birmingham Business Journal -
Birmingham, AL
... a fresh start through bankruptcy filings in the past and went on to start successful new ventures, according to a study by the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas...
UNI to break ground for Business and Community Services building
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier -
Waterloo, IA
... The Innovation Accelerator will provide university and private sector ... be more active in technology transfer and other entrepreneurship activities," Pilkington ...
New MBA provider could prove a tough challenge
MSNBC - USA
... three business schools about the importance of entrepreneurial education to Oregon's economic development, said Pat Scruggs, innovation economy officer at the...
The New, Frontier-Free Business World Requires a Two-Sided Brain ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
To keep up with the world and the economy, innovation isn't enough; creativity is also required, he says. "Innovation is survival...
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 ...
IT Entrepreneurship 101: Microsoft, National Urban League Provide ...
Internet Ad Sales (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
... training and encouragement.". Recent studies paint a mixed picture of the current state of minority entrepreneurship. Over the ...
Merrill Lynch offers $5M to boost financial literacy
East Bay Business Times - Contra Costa, CA
... Wednesday that it is seeking applications from nonprofit groups for up to $5 million in grants to promote financial literacy and entrepreneurship training for...
Author: Innovation often means break from tradition
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA
If Pittsburgh and the United States are to maintain a competitive economic edge in an increasingly growing and changing economy, then innovation must play a...
Program aimed at nurturing new technologies in Texas
Waco Tribune Herald - Waco, TX
... The new fund is designed to create jobs and bolster the Texas economy over a period of years by "expediting innovation and commercialization of research," as ...
June
19-25, 2005
Pools of Angels Make the Money Hunt Easier
New York Times - New
York, NY
... The association, a two-year-old organization financed by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., to encourage the development of angel groups ...
Report Details Relationship Between Home Computer Ownership and Entrepreneurship
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City, MO
...today by the Office of Advocacy of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) details the relationship between home computer ownership and entrepreneurship...
Winners of Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of the Year Awards 2005 Announced...
Business Wire (press release) - San
Francisco,CA
...The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and improve the education of children and youth...
Study finds fear tops local budding entrepreneurs
Herald & Review -
Decatur, IL
Seventy-one percent of Central Illinois adults see an opportunity for starting their own business. But courage doesn't always accompany bright ideas. Fear of failure...
Small Business Innovation Supports the Environment
U.S. Small Business Administration - USA
By commercializing “natural plastics” made from renewable resources such as corn sugar, the innovative small firm
Metabolix, Inc, based in Cambridge, Mass. is helping to improve environmental quality using a market-based...
UW is wary of changes in patent law
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -
Milwaukee, WI
The head of Wisconsin's biggest technology transfer organization has been in Washington, D.C., the last few weeks trying to temper enthusiasm in Congress for making big changes to U.S. patent law...
Fanning Innovation, Euro-Style
BusinessWeek - USA
... paper laying out an agenda for a European "innovation ecosystem." The ... a culture deeply suspicious of the values that foster entrepreneurship -- ambition, the ...
The United States and the European Union Initiative to Enhance Transatlantic Economic Innovation and Growth
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... make progress on services, improve procurement opportunities, further cooperation in competition policy, and stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in areas ...
Central Pennsylvania Innovators Receive Recognition and Support in form of Federal Funding...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2005--Illustrating the growing strength of Pennsylvania's innovation economy, three central Pennsylvania life sciences ...
Broadband lag could hurt the US
CNN International - USA
... nations has fueled economic growth, technological innovation and improved quality of life, he said. "There are myriad benefits across the economy," Bleha said. ...
Your Boss May Be 15
Newsweek - USA
... Disney and the Kauffman Foundation have opened a kid-focused entrepreneurship exhibit at Epcot Center and a business-simulation game at hotshotbusiness.com. ...
Our job: Create the environment from which entrepreneurs spring
Portland Press Herald -
Portland, ME
... the absence of those characteristics - the inability to take risks, the lack of curiosity, the absence of innovation will make entrepreneurship highly unlikely...
Inmates come out of prison, into work force
Houston Chronicle -
Houston, TX
... He's one of the first inmates to participate in the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, which aims to prepare inmates up to two years before their release to the...
June 26 - July 2, 2005
Failure Is Part of Success
BusinessWeek - USA
... BusinessWeek Online reporter Stacy Perman recently spoke with Hall about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, how to bounce back, and his belief that real ...
Illinois Institute of Technology professor develops 'clean energy technology'
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne, IN
... Soon they are going to catch up and they already are. The age of entrepreneurship, innovation is what kept the United States ahead...
Minority-owned businesses face challenges
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee, WI
... The report, "The New Agenda for Minority Business Development" was sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, based in Kansas City,
Mo...
Poll shows entrepreneurship, education important to rural ...
Chadron Record - Chadron,NE,USA
...Business ownership. Entrepreneurship is a significant aspect of rural life, results show. Overall, 20 percent ...
P2P programs liable for piracy
Digital Connect News (subscription) - Australia
... it could pose a significant challenge for consumers, innovators and the economy. ... the current copyright owners are shielded from competitive innovation in the ...
Court Backs Cable in Brand X Case
InternetNews.com - USA
... Chester added, "The open environment of the Internet was the source of dynamic innovation in the digital economy in the 1990s when nondiscriminatory access to ...
Launching a business
Kansas City Star -
Kansas City, MO
... Buying an existing business also reduces time in planning, organizing and launching a business and helps limit risks because information on customers’ buying...
Author examines slide in creativity in US
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort
Wayne, IN
...This also pits homogeneous, less populous regions left behind by the creative economy against diverse, urban centers of innovation...
Intellectual entrepreneurship boosts minority scholars
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee, FL
A study by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation indicates that blacks and Hispanics are still significantly underrepresented among recipients of Ph.D.s...
Future of Fast Company: Part II
Fast Company - USA
...Fast Company and Inc. are magazines about innovation and entrepreneurship. They should be owned by an innovative entrepreneur...
Makeover for MBA Programs
Los Angeles Times, CA
... bonuses. That has led many prospective students to avoid MBA programs, which can cost $60,000 for two years of tuition. Not surprisingly ...
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