Newsroom: National News Archive 2006

January 29 - February 4, 2006

Innovation Inc.
Newsweek - USA
...And it comes not from golly-gee-whiz innovation, but from a whole new business... I always reflect on the UK economy, which has largely gone from a manufacturing...

Kauffman Foundation Program Targets Angel Investors
dBusinessNews Kansas City (press release) - Kansas City, MO
... Both ACEF and the PAI seminar series are programs of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The PAI education programs are delivered ...

Small business innovation legislation introduced
Cincinnati Business Courier - OH
..."Kentucky's small businesses are a valuable resource for technological innovation, which helps stimulate our economy," Fletcher said in a news release...

Governor's panel looks to research, innovation to improve economy
Boston Globe - United States
By ML Johnson, Associated Press Writer | January 23, 2006. PROVIDENCE, RI --To stay competitive, Rhode Island needs more research ...

The care and feeding of venture capitalists
MaineToday.com - Portland, ME
...economic history has been the spread of industrial innovation - textiles, paper ...brand image as the dynamic frontier of Greater Boston's knowledge-based economy...

Mikulski: A Country that Doesn't Innovate, Stagnates
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills, CA
...We're talking about a legislative agenda to help us develop a new innovation economy and create the building blocks that will carry us through the next decade...

Pakistan to Join the Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA
... Thailand, South Korea, in Europe and North America on innovation and competitiveness ... to improving the competitiveness index of the Pakistani economy which is ... 

Purdue research a boon to farmers
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne, IN
... and the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center on Thursday. ... to form partnerships with industries, including agriculture, to grow Indiana's economy, Jischke said ...

February 5 - 11, 2006

Financing finds new heights
Boston Herald - United States
... To make poverty history, leaders in private, public and government organizations need to embrace entrepreneurship and innovation as antidotes to deprivation. ...

Entrepreneur Day returns to MSU on Feb. 16
Montana State University - United States
... A panel of successful, young entrepreneurs will be discussing entrepreneurship as it relates to students in the morning session. ...

Milwaukee chosen to join program for urban economic development
Marquette Tribune - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... minority entrepreneurs. An urban entrepreneurship center in the city would provide business coaches and technical assistance. He ...

Elbert: Journalists need to get down to business -- innovative ...
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... has said several times, "the more people will become interested in it and see they can do it, too." After a while, innovation and entrepreneurship become self...

Young Guns
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
... Shope credits UND's Center for Innovation and the school's entrepreneurial programs for ... Shannon Pearson, a senior studying marketing and entrepreneurship at UND ...

How to start small, think big
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... The Kauffman Foundation has created www.eventuring.org, a site that addresses many of the issues in getting a new company off the ground. ...

Silicon Valley: Still No. 1
Red Herring - CA,USA
... "We have a problem.". Policy makers seem unaware of how their decisions are affecting startups and the innovation economy, he contends. ...

Kauffman Foundation Announces 2005-2006 Entrepreneurship ...
AScribe - USA
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is proud to announce the 2005-2006 winners of the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship grants...

The Valley: Innovation Envy
Red Herring - CA,USA
...lurch by hits to its manufacturing sector and a declining timber economy, it is ... educated work force, and capital that knows how to find and foster innovation...

Colleges, companies coordinate innovation approach
NewsForge - USA
... Also contributing to and promoting the collaboration principles was the Kauffman Foundation, an organization focused on fusing education, business, and ...

Public-private partners search for innovation hunt
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
A statewide competition to spotlight small business innovation will be kicked off today by the Chicago West Side Entrepreneurship Center. ...

Junior innovators impress judges
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... by teams of high school student entrepreneurs for this week's Innovation Fair 2006. ... George Avalos covers the economy, financial markets, insurance and banks. ...

Wireless World: Enormous innovation, but big challenges
United Press International - USA
... "There is enormous innovation in our economy -- no doubt," said James Melcher, founder of the New York City-based hedge fund, Balestra Capital Management, in ...

Twenty years reaps many entrepreneurial lessons
USA Today - USA
... business management. More than a half million new businesses are started each month, according to the Kauffman Foundation. And in ...

Financial Times Ranks Babson College MBA #1 in Entrepreneurship ...
Babson College Athletics News - USA
The Financial Times has named Babson College the #1 MBA program in the world for Entrepreneurship. Babson ranks ahead of Stanford ...

JAMES LOWRY: Minority firms on the move
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA
... According to our research (sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo.), 30 percent of all minority-owned firms are now clustered in ...

February 12 - 18, 2006

Eight Colleges Benefit from Entrepreneurship Program
Young Money Magazine
Thanks to a grant from The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, thousands of college students across the nation are getting more exposure to the world of entrepreneurship...

Three-year program, entrepreneurship legal clinic underlie joint ...
Indiana University - Bloomington,IN,USA
... practice in business law and transactional law," said Timothy J. Boeglin, IU visiting clinical professor of law and director of the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic... 

Optimizing Your Cash Flow Featured on Kauffman eVenturing(TM)...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA
... posted on Kauffman eVenturing(TM) (www.eVenturing.org), a Web site for growth-oriented entrepreneurs launched recently by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation...

Bush launches $13B initiative in math, sciences
Stanford Daily - Palo Alto,CA
...his State of the Union Address, is designed to encourage domestic innovation in order to strengthen the United States' competitiveness in the global economy...

Entrepreneurship talk is big business on campus
Student Life - St-Louis, MO
... workshops and competitions to undergraduates, has been one of the key players in the University's recent push towards a heightened focus on entrepreneurship. ...

Creative Clusters and the Urban Economy
Government Technology - Folsom, CA
... As we talk about the development of creative industries today and the foreshadowing of a whole economy based upon creativity and innovation -- the dawn of the ...

GOIC and Carnegie Mellon University announce partnership
AME Info - United Arab Emirates
...the first of its kind in the region, to transfer its expertise in technology-based entrepreneurship and innovation to entrepreneurs...

Time for reform and innovation
Shreveport Times - Shreveport, LA
... The Long Road Ahead, a special project in today's Times, looks at the status and future of key state components and issues: economy, culture, health care...

Can Iowa innovate?
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines, IA
... The 10-year, $500 million effort, which was revived last year after funding had run out, relies heavily on innovation to rebuild the state economy...

The ins and outs of financing your business
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron, OH
People often use more than one source: Source: Diahann W. Lassus, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo.,Working Solo Inc. New Paltz...

Entrepreneurship: It's not only about the money
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
... This represents an increase of 9 million people from the late 1990s, says Paul Reynolds, director of the Entrepreneurship Research Institute in an article in ...

Believe in Business
Marion Chronicle Tribune - Marion, IN
... County session of FastTrac New Venture, part of an entrepreneurship education program developed by the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman foundation...

Regaining the competitive edge
Buffalo News - NY, United States
... "But the only way to assure continuing innovation is to ... "But ours is a manufacturing economy, and there is much we need to do to strengthen manufacturing."...

IBM exec urges companies to rethink innovation
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
...as companies let go of work that used to be performed in the United States, Sanford says: "We are a country built on entrepreneurship and innovation...

MIT 'hotbed of innovation' in Waltham
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
... developed a co-dependent relationship, said Jose Pacheco, program manager at MIT's Entrepreneurship Center. ... Locally, MIT is a "hotbed of innovation," he said...

Center to revive inner city can invigorate entire region
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI
... economy," according to a 2004 study by the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. ... under Bush's gospel of free enterprise to catalyze inner-city entrepreneurship...

IU-Purdue collaboration could unlock our potential
Indianapolis Star - United States
... professor. He is co-founder of Biomedship, a program meant to instill entrepreneurship and innovation into Purdue's top-notch research. ...

Wake Forest University develops innovative entrepreneurship minor
WFU News Service - Winston-Salem,NC
Wake Forest University has developed a new, interdisciplinary minor in entrepreneurship that is among the first of its kind in the country. ...

US Entrepreneurship On the Rise
Assembly Magazine - Bensenville,IL
... entrepreneurial activity reflects an increase of 9 million people from the late 1990s," says Paul Reynolds, director of the Entrepreneurship Research Institute...

Striking Out on Your Own
Inc.com - New York,NY
... not surprising that many pause or turn back before taking the leap into entrepreneurship. ... Chamber of Commerce, but is quick to add that the policy became cost ...

Silencing factory whistles will muffle economy, report warns
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... There are plenty of people who think the economy can survive on selling services ... is losing factories, doesn't mean the nation will lose innovation, Nichols said ...

Kerry Calls on Government to Expand Opportunities for Women ...
International News Service - Sydney,Australia
... According to a study conducted by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, less than 1 percent of the $250 billion in venture capital dollars invested annually ...

February 19 - 25, 2006

New training program helps tech startups
Phoenix Business Journal - Phoenix,AZ,USA
FastTrac Tech, created by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, is designed to accelerate technology companies through a 10-week training program that covers...

At the heart of ports dispute, fear challenges openness
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... We want to encourage freedom and entrepreneurship in the Muslim world, but this episode is ... Our policy has been to reach out to Muslims worldwide and tell them... 

Tips for Budding Entrepreneurs
Smartmoney.com - USA
... 202,190 businesses a month in 2004, up from 186,041 in 2000, according to the most recent research from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo ...

Maine's future rides on healthy culture of entrepreneurs
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
... development policy is not so much a question of identifying the winning sector and throwing money into it but of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship. ...

Invention 101
Duke University - Durham,NC,USA
... Also on the panel was Rob Valli, director of The Kauffman Foundation, an organization dedicated to enhancing university entrepreneurship, and Donna Cookmeyer ... 

R&D Goes Offshore In Search Of Talent
Industry Week - USA
... to the best talent, but in the ease of developing and licensing technology," said Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, which sponsored ... 

Seed money helps local youth business grow
Spencerport Westside News - Spencerport,NY,USA
... one of a series of initiatives being developed and offered at the University of Rochester with the support of a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation ... 

Labor Dept. snub leads to real innovation
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... scientist Andrew Lippman for a talk on Viral Innovation and Communications ... of Chicago Graduate School of Business alumni entrepreneurship conference Thursday ...

Innovate or perish
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... 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 ...

FastTrac-ing tech startups
Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
... The program Tri-C will follow was developed by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, an organization based in Kansas City, Mo., that promotes entrepreneurship ...

New black chamber aims to encourage entrepreneurship in Northern ...
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
Clockwise the left, Rohan Hall, Keith Buggs, Vita Ozoude, Martin Ezemma and Judi Gardner pose together last month for a portrait at The Brew House Pub and Grill ... 

Entrepreneurship is worthwhile as a major
Oklahoma Daily - Norman,OK,USA
... But what my entrepreneurship classes have taught me is that it not only takes talent, but education and experience as well to become an entrepreneur.... 

Finding ways to boost women in SC
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... challenges of women in gaining economic power and policy-level decision ... fastest-growing and potentially most lucrative career field for women, entrepreneurship. ...

Entrepreneur speaks to aspiring businesspeople
Oklahoma Daily - Norman,OK,USA
... He spoke at OU Wednesday at a meeting for the College Entrepreneurs club, a new student group with the Entrepreneurship Center. ... 

Panel supports recommendations to fine-tune small business ...
GovExec.com - USA
... for the White House's Office of Federal Procurement Policy and Congress ... Kerry, ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Addicted to Innovation
Truth about Trade & Technology - Des Moine,IA,USA
... already has shown us that ethanol can power a major economy: About 40 ... Yet innovation--an American specialty--will help us overcome these and other problems. ...

High school students latch onto entrepreneurship class
Arkansas City Traveler - Arkansas City,KS,USA
... About 140 students, representing all four classes -- freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors -- are taking entrepreneurship in six class periods. ...

'Apprentice' backs black entrepreneurs
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
Donald Trump's newest apprentice, Randal Pinkett, stopped at the University of Virginia on Thursday to encourage black entrepreneurship and to celebrate Black...

University establishes new minor
WFU Old Gold & Black - Salem,NC,USA
... Foundations of Creativity and Innovation," taught by Lynn Book, visiting associate professor of theatre and dance and "Foundations of Entrepreneurship...

Entrepreneurship heralds a return of the roaring 20s
Seattle Times - United States
By Matt Marshall. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- When venture capitalist Jim Breyer courted Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg last year to make ... 

Accelerate growth of innovation economy
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... Florida has made significant progress in creating a business atmosphere that nurtures entrepreneurship based on innovation, but more must be done. ...

Low Cost Not Driving Offshoring
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
... capital and university collaboration, not lower costs, as their main reason for doing so, according to a new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.... 

Probing Question: What kinds of people make successful ...
Penn State Live - PA,USA
... The entrepreneur's gift, said Anthony Warren, director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State, is the ability to see ...

EDITORIAL: Entrepreneurship: West Virginia's Only Way Out
HNN Huntingtonnews.net - WV, USA
While West Virginia's economic history has a strong stream of large industries in different parts of the Mountain State, another stream has been coursing right ... 

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