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Newsroom: National News Archive 2005
September 4 - 10, 2005
Teaching Large Companies To Think Like The Little Guys
WebProNews - Lexington, KY
...innovation and entrepreneurship run rampant in smaller companies,
but is often suppressed in larger companies is nothing new.
Management guru Peter Drucker...
Universities Missing Opportunities to Advance Innovation
PrimeZone (press release) -
Los Angeles, CA
... high-impact entrepreneurship but are not reaping the full
benefits of their research efforts, according to researchers at the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation...
Health costs are stifling start-ups
Asbury Park Press - Asbury
Park, NJ
... quit Corporate America and its blue-chip benefits to start
businesses, entrepreneurship experts say. That raises alarms about
the impact on innovation and job ...
Forum editorial: Labor Day celebrates innovation
In-Forum (subscription) -
Fargo, ND
...American workforce is jittery. Despite strong economic growth and
impressive job creation, unease about long-term job security darkens
what appears to be an otherwise bright...
Inside Entrepreneurship: A specific plan works best when courting
VCs
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- USA
... Find more Inside Entrepreneurship columns at seattlepi.com/venture.
Send questions about small business management or raising money...
Sustaining
America's Preeminence In Science and Innovation
The MIT Tech - Boston, MA
...while America’s preeminence in the domains of science and
innovation remains, it is no longer assured. Indeed, international
progress now directly challenges our own...
Entrepreneurs get creative for capital
Miami Herald - FL
Small business owners have access to a variety of capital sources.
Writer Jan Norman offers pointers on ways to rake in the dough...
September 11 - 17, 2005
Entrepreneurship Minor
Howard University Hilltop
(subscription) - Washington, DC
...The program is funded by a $3.1million grant awarded to Howard
over a five year period by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation...
Big Ideas from Pint-Sized Entrepreneurs
BusinessWeek - USA
... business. Entrepreneurs tend to be cynical about the
government's ability to do anything positive about promoting
entrepreneurship...
20 Entrepreneurs Under 35
Red Herring - CA
Young men and women seeking their fortunes in technology no longer
only “go west.” When the dot-com bust left Silicon Valley smoldering
five years ago, young techies...
Entrepreneurs Go Long on Optimism
BusinessWeek - USA
... a majority of the small-business group (54%) said US foreign
policy had had ... Karen E. Klein is a Los Angeles-based writer who
covers entrepreneurship and small ...
Korea shifts focus to commercialization from innovation
Korea Herald (subscription)
- Seoul,South Korea
... The R&BD program is in response to an economy whose government
has been actively supporting research and development in innovative
technologies, but falling ...
Access to Capital Experts Discuss Latino Wealth Gap, New Age
Investing...
Hispanic PR Wire (press
release) - Miami, FL
... will discuss the Latino wealth divide that continues to widen
for Hispanic entrepreneurs as a result of limited or no access to
venture capital, and the...
B-School launches new competition
Student Life - St-Louis, MO
... Louis Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition kicked
off Thursday night with a celebration and a conversation with
University City Loop social ...
Official:
Innovate to boost economy
Connecticut Post -
Bridgeport, CT
"We need to reconfigure as a state that knows how to do innovation,"
Marie O'Brien, CDA's president, told the 36 people at a Bridgeport
Regional Business ...
Broadcasting Veteran Farrell Reynolds to Keynote Opportunity 2005
Conference...
Business Wire (press
release) - San Francisco, CA
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced
that Farrell Reynolds - a sales and marketing executive with over 30
years of experience...
Business plan competition offers $15,000 awards
Monmouth Daily Review Atlas
- Monmouth, IL
... Development Partnership is announcing a business grant
opportunity available through one of its alliance partners, the
Western Illinois Entrepreneurship Center...
September 18 - 24, 2005
More
Than 500,000 New Businesses Launched Each Month Says New Kauffman
Foundation Study
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA
... and the rate for African-Americans growing, according to a new
national assessment of entrepreneurial activity launched by the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation ...
The
impact of Hurricane Katrina on small business
U.S. Newswire (press
release) - Washington,DC
...explore the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina on small
business, and specifically how and on what timetable the federal
government -- and the SBA in particular -- will respond...
KC launches minority economic center
Kansas City Business
Journal - Kansas City, MO
Kansas City opened the first of five Urban Entrepreneur Partnership
centers on Tuesday...
Business as unusual
Georgetown Record -
Beverly, MA
...The agreement also stipulates that in the second year of the
program, Georgetown will introduce two one-semester entrepreneurship
courses to its curriculum...
Stanford Graduate School of Business Launches Entrepreneurship
Class...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY
The Stanford Graduate School of Business today launched a new
entrepreneurship class for second-year graduate students, which was
co-developed with Forum for Women Entrepreneurs...
$3 million grant funds new IP clinic at Washington U.
St. Louis Business Journal
- St. Louis, MO
With funding from Kansas City's Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation,
Washington University is providing intellectual property and
business-launch advice to companies that might not otherwise have
access to it...
Many minorities starting their own firms
Seattle Times - United
States
...The 2002 study, "The Entrepreneur Next Door," published by the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, showed that African Americans were
50 percent more likely...
Networking opens doors to venture funding for women entrepreneurs
Austin Business Journal -
Austin, TX
Despite the growing numbers of female business owners, women have
been relatively slow to enter the ranks of venture capitalists...
Courses adapting to small business owners
Huntington Herald Dispatch
- Huntington, WV
As larger, industrial jobs give way to smaller tech companies, the
education system has started adapting. Marshall University offered
for the first time a minor in entrepreneurship...
Small Business Companies may see opportunity after hurricane
In Business Las Vegas -
Henderson, NV
...[NFIB] said small-business owners' optimism was virtually
unchanged for August with 21 percent saying it was a good time to
expand, 26 percent saying they expected higher sales...
Development center hosting FastTrac
Anderson Independent Mail
(subscription) - Anderson, SC
...Development Center is to offer the first FastTrac entrepreneurial
and business training programs in the Upstate through the Kauffman
Foundation of Kansas City...
September 25 - October 3, 2005
Turning science into medicine
Boston Globe - United
States
...we struggle to train -- or even identify -- translational
investigators who specialize in bridging the gap between lab and
patient...
Launch national research crusade
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des
Moines, IA
...Almost everyone who has studied the crisis in U.S. manufacturing
concludes that the United States is not turning out enough
scientists and engineers, and that inevitably will lead to...
Turning science into medicine
Boston Globe - United
States
... best to facilitate the translation of science into clinical
application, then they must learn to appreciate the opportunities
that entrepreneurship represents...
Lecture Links ‘Technopreneurs'
Cornell Daily Sun - Ithaca,
NY
... to the difficulty of balancing good medicine and sound fiscal
policy, especially in ... was part of the Biotechnology Management &
Entrepreneurship Seminar Series ...
Moving innovations from research to application
Kansas City Star - MO
...Our country right now is based very much on a knowledge economy,"
Lesa Mitchell, the Kauffman Foundation's vice president of advancing
innovation, said in...
Kauffman Foundation Announces iBridge
Application
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today unveiled the iBridge(tm)
program, a Web-based platform designed to facilitate the licensing
...
Conference Seeks to Spur University
Innovation, Entrepreneurship
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Kauffman Foundation, along with the Technology Transfer
Society, will convene a three-day conference, Advancing Innovation
and Entrepreneurship ...
The Keys to High-Impact Innovation
BusinessWeek - USA
Companies that dare to dream big often end up as winners in today's
economy. Here are some steps for developing major breakthroughs...
Study shows immigrants have
substantially higher entrepreneurship ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
... we are losing thousands of businesses a year, or that there is a
lot larger underground economy" than estimated ...
The 10 Faces of Innovation
Fast Company - USA
... It is about the unsung heroes who work on the front lines of
entrepreneurship in action, the countless people and teams who make
innovation happen day ...
Kulongoski Announces Oregon
Innovation Council
Nanotechnology News (press release) - USA
... "Oregon higher education institutions are valuable assets in
both growing our innovation industries and growing our economy,"
Governor Kulongoski said.
Entrepreneurship Grows In All Market
Conditions
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
... afford nannies or other childcare. African-American
entrepreneurship remains low, but is increasing. The average rate of
business ...
A new model: UNC-CH to
test online tech-transfer market
MSNBC - USA
... The "iBridge" program at UNC-CH is being funded by a grant from
the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and will be tested in the
Office of Technology Development...
School offers entrepreneurs a head start
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,
MN
... Thomas is trying to give the creator of the next Microsoft or
Best Buy a leg up on competitors with its new Schulze School of
Entrepreneurship...
Magazine puts Iowa 50th for business start-ups
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des
Moines, IA
... Justine Walden, a policy center researcher, told Entrepreneur
that the best-rated ... Steve Carter, director of the Pappajohn
Center for Entrepreneurship ...
Leverage universities to transform state economy
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des
Moines, IA
... Likewise, high-technology innovation originating in Iowa's
universities has the potential to revolutionize our state's economy.
...
Gulf Coast entrepreneurs
face reality
MSNBC - USA
...As Wilson listened to the president's speech on September 15, he
was heartened by links he heard between entrepreneurship and
minorities...
Getting a jump on the competition
Amesbury News - Amesbury,
MA
...will be learning their stuff come January as Amesbury High School
premieres a new course, "Creating a Small Business, Entrepreneurship
Using Technology...
US entrepreneurial spirit remains steady, study finds
USA Today - USA
... The study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a major
sponsor of economic research, examined Census data from 1996 through
last year...
Hot cities for small
business
MSNBC - USA
...helped Phoenix lead large cities (cities with more than 50,000
businesses) in Entrepreneur and NPRC's Annual Entrepreneurial Hot
Cities rankings. Arizona, likewise, was the top state...
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