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Newsroom: National News Archive 2006
January 1 - 7, 2006
Managing Innovation
Always On - USA
...No company, regardless of its success or wealth, can do the bulk
of its own R&D and ignore the powerful forces at work out there in
the larger community...
Top Strategies on Buy-Sell Agreements for Entrepreneurs Featured ...
Business Wire (press
release) - San Francisco, CA
... Kauffman eVenturing(TM) (www.eVenturing.org), a Web site for
growth-oriented entrepreneurs launched by the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation in November...
Invest venture capital in La.
Shreveport Times -
Shreveport, LA
... "The importance of venture capital in today's innovation-based
global ... economics professor with the university's Center for
Entrepreneurship and Information ...
It Could be a Very Happy New Year for Entrepreneurs
Always On - USA
Four years ago, I was listening to NPR and I heard a program
underwritten by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which referred
to itself as "the foundation ...
The year in innovation
MSNBC - USA
Massachusetts trumpets its status as a hotbed for innovation, the
region's distinct advantage and key to its future. Yet much of the
homegrown innovation evolves quietly, far from many observers'
notice...
Fine-tuning our coverage in 2006
Crain's Detroit Business
(subscription) - Detroit, MI
Are you tired of reading stories with a relentless drumbeat of
downsizing, right-sizing, job losses and cuts in employee and
retiring benefits? Me, too...
Now it's the knowledge economy, stupid
Chicago Sun-Times - United
States
...and engineers drive knowledge-economy innovation, and innovation
creates wealth... president Aaron Crane; University of Chicago
entrepreneurship director...
Life after HP
Corvallis Gazette Times -
Corvallis, OR
The news hit like a hammer blow: Hewlett-Packard announced in May
that it was cutting 570 jobs at its Corvallis campus through a
voluntary severance program. Even factoring in...
Microenterprise gaining attention
Shreveport Times -
Shreveport, LA
... And many of them are enrolled in school or job training programs
-- child care or auto repair, for example -- that have
entrepreneurship potential...
San Joaquin works to plug rural brain drain
Tri-Valley Herald -
Pleasanton, CA
... Timothy Stearns, director of the Lyles Center for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship at Fresno State, remembers when the city made the
cover of Life magazine in ...
Changes test our leadership potential
Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle - Rochester, NY
... to 350 people interested in early-stage investing,
entrepreneurship, technology development...
January 8 - 14, 2006
Chatham College and Robert Morris University Launch FastTrac(R) To
...
PR Newswire (press release)
- New York, NY
... Coordinated by the Chatham College Center for Women's
Entrepreneurship and Robert Morris University's Massey Center for
Business Innovation and Development...
State gives $1.4 million to innovation zone
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review -
Pittsburgh, PA
... The innovation zone program is part of Gov. Ed Rendell's program
to create jobs by promoting entrepreneurship and technology
development...
To compete, Idaho must nurture innovation
IdahoStatesman.com - ID
... Advancement in an "innovation economy" is always about the
people. Idaho will continue to prosper in the 21st century if we can
...
RPI sees future in effort to grow entrepreneurship
Albany Times Union -
Albany, NY
... He also has experience as a health care executive and was
previously the head of entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation...
Top
Strategies on Buy-Sell Agreements for Entrepreneurs Featured on
Kauffman eVenturing™
Kauffman Foundation Press
Release - USA
One of the most important, yet often overlooked, issues for
entrepreneurs in businesses involving partnerships... is planning
for the smooth transition of ownership if one of the owners
retires...
Design Gets Its Due in Davos
BusinessWeek - USA
The World Economic Forum, held annually in Davos, Switzerland, is a
high-altitude, high-profile gathering of the globe's business and
political elites. Microsoft's Bill Gates...
The
Changing Face of Entrepreneurship
American Venture Magazine -
Palo Alto, CA
...Has the face of entrepreneurship changed as the leaders of the
latest round of ...up to the moment young aggressive business
executives on the cusp of innovation...
International Finance Corporation and Kauffman Foundation Launch
Joint Studies on Initiatives to Promote Women's Access to Finance
WebWire (press release) -
Atlanta, GA
...The studies will gather detailed information on specific
initiatives throughout the world, with a focus on emerging markets.
The IFC study will focus on programs...
Is
Entrepreneurship Really For You?
American Venture Magazine -
Palo Alto, CA
...or trade in your BMW for seed capital for the new business, sit
back for awhile and consider what impact this drastic change called
entrepreneurship might have...
Dr.
William Baumol Receives Advocacy Award for Contributions to ...
Yahoo! News (press release)
- USA
... of Dr. Baumol's achievements and insights, Advocacy sponsored
three academic seminars on entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth
at the AEA annual meeting...
Our nation is letting its innovative edge slip away
The Register-Guard -
Eugene, Oregon
... The seedbeds for science-based innovation are concentrated in a
few urban areas ... little to create these nuclei of a competitive
industrial economy, it provided ...
Rural roots:
Entrepreneur talk focuses on jobs, community ...
Enterprise-Record - Chico,
CA
... Communities' rewards will be huge if entrepreneurs are served.
Listening to Chojnowski is a mini-course in what rural
entrepreneurship can be...
Course directs entrepreneurial dreams
Marion Chronicle Tribune -
Marion, IN
... Enterprises program at Taylor University's Center for Research
and Innovation. ... New Venture is part of an entrepreneurship
education program developed by the ...
Connecting technology and entrepreneurs
Bradenton Herald - FL
... "We do that through the support of entrepreneurship." The group
... areas simply don't think of southwest Florida as a breeding
ground for innovation and technology ...
Mo. retired military lean toward entrepreneurship
St. Louis Business Journal
- St. Louis, MO
Military retirees in Missouri are more likely to be entrepreneurs
than non-military workers, a new study by the Missouri Economic
Research and Information ...
Tuck offers class in entrepreneurship
The Dartmouth - Hanover, NH
A mini-course designed to provide students with a basic education in
the commercialization of technology, entrepreneurship and the
starting of new business ...
Business proposals compete for cash, prizes
DePaulina - Chicago, IL
... The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) is sponsoring the
DePaul New Venture Challenge (DNVC), a business competition open to
the DePaul community...
January 15 - 21, 2006
Vice provost will push innovation
Polytechic Online -
Troy,NY,USA
...of the reasons he took the position here was his interest in
technology and innovation. He also pointed out that at many
universities entrepreneurship is...
Guest opinion: Minority businesses: boom or bust
Billings Gazette - MT
... According to our research, sponsored by the Ewing Marion
Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, 30 percent of all minority-owned
firms are now clustered in low...
The Innovation Spark Must Be Carefully Nurtured
Industry Week - USA
... Jan. 18, 2006 -- An innovation-driven economy, supportive of
risk-taking, is necessary to promote breakthrough thinking and
ensure economic vitality...
Being a teen is hard work for this entrepreneur
USA Today - USA
... how many teens start or run businesses, but Ben is one of an
estimated tens of thousands in the USA, according to the Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation, a non ...
UB going entrepreneurial
Baltimore Sun - United
States
... McCarthy, who created Colorado State University's
entrepreneurship center before coming to the University of Baltimore
in 2002, is hoping the school becomes ...
Kauffman Foundation Names Panel of Top University Educators to
Develop Framework for Model Entrepreneurship Curriculum
AScribe - USA
17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Seeking to advance entrepreneurship
education in colleges and universities, the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation today announced the ...
Innovation-driven economies the new focus
Blue Ridge Business Journal
- Roanoke, VA
... "[There] is a real public policy challenge for the transition
from a [traditional] manufacturing ... Roanoke appears to be making
some inroads in entrepreneurship. ...
Innovation trumps imitation in achieving successes in business
NewsOK.com (subscription) -
Oklahoma City, OK
... In today's highly competitive world economy, too many companies
are dampening creativity ... Executives pay lip service to the need
for innovation and many of them ...
Moving toward an idea economy
San Jose Mercury News - CA,
USA
... has reaffirmed its global competitiveness by evolving into an
``idea economy'' that continues to produce high-paying jobs
involving creativity and innovation...
Innovation Centers - The need for coordination
Anderson Independent Mail
(subscription) - Anderson, SC
...But as South Carolina strives to build a knowledge-based economy,
Clemson now is stepping into other areas, including spaces being
called innovation centers...
Missouri Set to Unveil New Entrepreneurship Courses
Inc.com - New York, NY
... Today there's a real place for entrepreneurship education for
all students," said Judith Cone, vice president of the Ewing Marion
Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas ...
One place, two vastly different business rankings
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,
MN
... say is that from a policy perspective, that doesn't add up,"
Keating says. The survival index uses 26 yardsticks to measure
"friendliness" to entrepreneurship....
Good times
ahead?
Paradise Post - Paradise,
CA
... the area, turning the city into a "Mighty Mouse" of
entrepreneurship that is ... was a panel discussion with University
of California public policy specialist Al ...
Bits &
Bytes: Universities welcome tech transfer aid from state ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette -
Pittsburgh, PA
... set to join the foundation on Feb. 1 as director of its newly
renamed Innovation Economy Program. This is a real coup for Heinz'
economic ...
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