ABOUT NDE

NDE-NEWS

ABOUT ENTREPRENEURSHIP

FURTHER SOURCES

GLOBAL REVIEW

POLICY AREAS

JOIN THE DIALOGUE

NDE MAIN

 

Newsroom: National News Archive 2005

December 4 - 10, 2005

SBE Council Critical of Eminent Domain Attacks on Small Business
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) published a new report today highlighting the dangers faced by small businesses...

Engler Calls For ‘Accelerated Innovation' at National ...
Manufacturers' Blog - Washington, DC
... National Summit on Competitiveness at the Commerce Department by observing, "It is vividly clear that America's economy must accelerate innovation... 

Kanavas: Invest Wisconsin Stakes New Ground in Making State ...
Wisbusiness.com - Madison, WI
... That innovation is what will be the bellwether for our state. ... If those kids don't get educated and become meaningful participants in the economy, we will be in...

New Report to Highlight Broadband Benefits for Elderly and Disabled
TMCNet - USA
...the New Millennium Research Council will release a new report pointing to broadband deployment as a key to reducing U.S. healthcare costs and boosting the nation's economy...

Stern awarded $735k grant
Washington Square News - New York, NY
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation granted $735,000 to Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies last month to further entrepreneurial research...

The 2005 Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year!
MSNBC - USA
...Others include the Kauffman Foundation's Women and Minority initiative, and Springboard Enterprises, a nonprofit that works with women entrepreneurs seeking VC...

Perry urges entrepreneurship at Tyler luncheon
News Journal - Longview, TX
By MELISSA TRESNER. TYLER -- Small business carries the load of the economy, Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday during a daylong summit ...

Slowing Regulatory Costs Critical for Small Business Growth and ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Budget (OMB) report released today showing a dramatic decrease in the growing costs of federal regulation, the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE ...

Center to support students at start-up businesses
The Orion - Chico, CA
Students can get the tools they need to successfully start a small business at the Center for Entrepreneurship after the Academic Senate unanimously approved ...

Giving, with impact
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... and Public Policy at University of Southern California, where he holds the Emery Evans Olson Chair in Nonprofit Entrepreneurship and Public Policy...

Randal Pinkett, the Next Apprentice?
Hatch Magazine - Monmouth Junction, NJ
... administration represent areas that are central to my role as the CEO of a management, technology and policy-consulting firm. ... Entrepreneurship is about timing. ...

eVenturing.com helps businesses learn how to grow
Miami Herald - FL
Entrepreneurs have a fresh source of ideas from a new website by the Kauffman Foundation. But the eVenturing site itself might consider expanding...

Entrepreneurs' online software wins competition
The Brown and White - USA
...its product developments as "a means to the end of preparing our students to lead companies in innovation, creativity and... "The entrepreneurship class is...

Group boosts entrepreneurial program
The State - Columbia, SC
... entrepreneurial training in this state by connecting aspiring business owners to the renowned training programs developed by the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas ...

Idea Exchange Takes Entrepreneurship To New Heights In Chicago and New York
BlackNews.com (press release) - Long Beach, CA
... public. Corporate downsizing, globalization and disappointment with the glass ceiling have fueled this trend toward entrepreneurship...

Inside Entrepreneurship: Founding CEO wants to be there at the finish, too
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Find more Inside Entrepreneurship columns at www.seattlepi.com/venture Send questions about small-business management or raising money for your business to ...

South Africa's Black Economic Empowerment Program Supersedes ...
Epoch Times - New York, NY
... "The Codes clearly identify the government's BEE policy. ... black management, promoting employment equity, and nurturing black entrepreneurship," wrote Itumeleng ...

SC research president finds success one goal at a time
The State - Columbia, SC
... McLean, whose organization is also working to help create a knowledge-based economy, said the innovation center program is what the region needs. ...

Students walk the runway
Charlotte Sun-Herald - Charlotte, FL
NORTH PORT -- North Port High School students took the runway Friday showing off all they learned in the new Small Business and Entrepreneurship Academy. ...

Strategy in tough times: a new idea
Newsday - Long Island, NY
... That's according to David Wilemon, a professor of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse ...

Keeping the brains in the Bluegrass
Kentucky.com - Lexington, KY
... university scientists and entrepreneurs hone their ideas into innovation-driven businesses ... ve seen, which is a focus on encouraging entrepreneurship and really ...

 

December 11 - 17, 2005

Executive Chatter with the Cleveland Foundation's Brad Whitehead
Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland, OH
... Mr. Whitehead sees Cool Cleveland and other Innovation Lab-funded projects as... The second trend is we have awakened to the need for entrepreneurship...

The Best in Class
TIME - USA
... to social problems and publishes the Stanford Social Innovation Review, about... this year was host to the first International Social Entrepreneurship Conference...

Getting a reading on managing
Kansas City Star - MO
... The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship, for example, just suggested some "best" books for entrepreneurs. Among their picks...

Where will Delaware work next?
The News Journal - Wilmington, DE
... Delaware's history of innovation will work ... "That's the multibillion-dollar question," said Michael D. Helmar, senior economist with Moody's Economy.com...

A German Harvard?
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton, PA
... Innovation and entrepreneurship have suffered. The last time a German won a Nobel was three years ago--and he was doing his research in the United States...

The Globalization Challenge: How the World's Most Populous ...
Stanford Review - Stanford, CA
... In short, we have become the "brain" of the new world, continuing to maintain the largest economy in the world through innovation...

Imigrants and the economy: Are we missing out?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis, MO
... become entrepreneurs at a rate 30 percent higher than that of native-born Americans, according to a report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas ...

The Ultimate Employee Buy-in
Inc.com - New York, NY
One of the great ironies of entrepreneurship is that many people spend years building their companies, only to undo all of that work at the very end by deciding to sell...

Students help restaurant
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati, OH
...The owner of Rasheedah's Deli & Catering this week got some insights on how she might expand. Xavier University students prepared a business plan for the restaurant...

‘Angel investors' launch group to aid startups
Kansas City Star - MO
...The group was scheduled to present its plans to about 50 potential members Thursday evening at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation...

December 18 - 24, 2005

Central NJ has high-tech hopes
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park, NJ
"There is a sense across Central New Jersey that we've got the stuff, we've got what it takes to become a hotbed of entrepreneurship and innovation," Holt...

Pet-sitting teenager is honored for entrepreneurship
Arizona Republic - Phoenix, AZ
Becky Saunders is only 14 but she has the business savvy of an entrepreneur three times her age. Three years ago, Becky put together...

Entrepreneurs, innovators seen as key for Central Jersey's Einstein's Alley
Princeton Packet - Princeton, NJ
Local innovation and entrepreneurship, not top-down governance from federal and state leaders, is needed to strengthen Central Jersey's economic...

Taylor University to Hold Business Plan Competition
Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis, IN
Taylor University's Center for Research and Innovation is hosting a business plan competition aimed at enhancing entrepreneurship throughout east central...

US Universities Loosen Grip On Tech Rights To Keep Vendor Grants From Going Overseas
InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY
... Last summer, IBM and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which focuses on advancing innovation and entrepreneurship, cosponsored a summit between industry ...

Renewing Britain's Legacy of Innovation
BusinessWeek - USA
... Because they make up half the British economy. If you're a big company and you don't understand the importance of innovation, there's little chance you will...

Region is poised, ready for innovation clusters
Dunn County News - Menomonie, WI
...States science and technology policies recognize that strong, sustainable economies must support clusters of entrepreneurship and innovation - key drivers...

Online entrepreneurship becomes a new way of life
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... Pinson is a case study in Internet entrepreneurship: A regular guy has a regular job until he discovers he can make an income selling online...

India Seeks to Codify the Rules on Outsourcing
CRM Buyer - USA
"The developed economies are going to face acute shortages of working-age people. They will have to either import people or export work, said Kiran Karnik, president of...

Pinoy MIT students highlight Filipino entrepreneurship
Asianjournal.com - Los Angeles, CA
A GROUP of Filipino students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently held a symposium that recognized entrepreneurs among them...

Brett Nelson On Entrepreneurship
Forbes - USA
Optimism. A strong US economy and still low interest rates have entrepreneurs giddy about 2006. Two thirds of the 23 million small ...

Send Me an Angel Investor
BusinessWeek - USA
... John May and other angel investors is available online at the Kauffman eVenturing Web site, launched recently by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a private ...

Seeing The Light Of Growth
BusinessWeek - USA
... run on a platform "to spread wealth creation, and encourage entrepreneurship, risk-taking ... The Pro-Growth Progressive lays out some innovative policy proposals. ...

Valley tech push reaps results in DC
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... boost math and science education and promote innovation by US companies. ``It gives America's native ingenuity and private-sector entrepreneurship the help...

There's More Than One Way to Bust a Trust
Inc.com - New York, NY
... position. Robert Litan is a vice president at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City and a contributing editor at Inc...

Phila.'s next revolution: Forging creative economy
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia, PA
... Just last month, for example, the economic-development group Innovation Philadelphia hosted "Making the Campaign: Shape the Creative Economy" at Moore College...

Innovation gap gets Congress' attention but not Bush's, yet
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton, OH
... in the forefront of innovation and technology. It is aimed at assuring this country's competitive position in the new global economy, improving prospects...

December 25 - 31, 2005

A gift for the taking
Ocala.com - Ocala,FL,USA
... States in the forefront of innovation and technology. It is aimed at assuring this country's competitive position in the new global economy and thereby ...

Pumped up about patents
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... To boost the area economy through innovation that leads to successful business formation, LaPan said the city needs four things. ...

Delaware must grow its own new businesses
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
... past business and political leaders applied vision, innovation and focused ... approach to economic development must focus heavily on encouraging entrepreneurship...

Smeal launches entrepreneurship program for high school teachers
Penn State Live - PA,USA
... has launched a landmark entrepreneurial education program designed to provide school teachers with the skills they need to teach entrepreneurship to high ...

Why Give Capital a Break?
Black Enterprise - New York,NY,USA
... Supporters counter that the tax cuts boost entrepreneurship and that the tax initiative ... battles mask a remarkable economic consensus about tax policy: Taxes on ...

TiE to teach entrepreneurship to high school children
India New England - Waltham,MA,USA
... Deshpande had other words of advice for the young-- he told the audience that entrepreneurship helps one in everyday life, even if one did not become a ...

From Idea to Execution
Fast Company - USA
...serious about building a capacity for strategic innovation cannot simply hope... careful redesign can organizations excel at both efficiency and entrepreneurship....

Million dollar plans
Juneau County Star-Times - Mauston,WI,USA
... said the program fits in well with Governer Jim Doyle's "Grow Wisconsin Initiative." He said, "The name of the game in this economy is innovation and creativity ...

NEWSROOM

NDE-news

EntreFacts

Main

News Archive

 

Media contact:

Mark Marich

mark@pfidc.org

202-467-2776

 

ABOUT THE FORUM | ACTIVITIES | GET INVOLVED | ISSUES 
NEWSROOM | REPORTS | CONTACT | HOME
© 2008, The Public Forum Institute. All rights reserved.
The Public Forum Institute
2300 M Street, NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20037
Email :: Privacy Policy