Newsroom: National News Archive 2006

April 2 - 8, 2006

Universities play major role developing entrepreneurs and business ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... competitive phase. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, New Jersey Economic Authority and NJIT sponsored the event. Lester's project ...

Milestone may mean more jobs
Marion Chronicle Tribune - Marion,IN,USA
...New Venture. A coalition of area organizations worked together to put on the 10-week program, which guided participants through each phase of creating a business plan...

Dartmouth wins Rice competition
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
... The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University hosted the sixth installation...

Pitfalls of baby boomer entrepreneurship
U.S. News & World Report - USA
... It comes from Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville and author of the indispensable Entrepreneurial...

Innovation rewarded
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... forced to conform, your creativity will be drained out of you,” said Jon Fjeld, executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Duke...

BlackBerries, Patents and the Public Good
E-Commerce Times - USA
... that intellectual property rights are under siege in this new idea economy. ... provide the requisite stimulus toward further research and innovation, resulting...

Business recovery events scheduled
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... Office of Advocacy convenes conferences on small business research topics with the support of partners such as the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Gulf...

Home-field advantage
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... with a new financial services business under development and a passion to help others get started as an entrepreneur in residence at the Kauffman Foundation...

Doing business in Kentucky not a ‘privilege’
Bluegrass Institute - Bowling Green,KY,USA
... and instead often wind up as anchors that hold back entrepreneurship across the state. ... politicians apparently see nothing wrong with such an errant tax policy...

Developing Nations Benefit from Student Engineering, Innovation
Baylor University - Waco,TX,USA
... this year titled "Strengthening the Fabric: Building capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship ... give these villages the tools to build their economy on their...

Sandia Labs scientists take time off for entrepreneurship
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Losing an employee from Sandia National Laboratories is a victory - albeit bittersweet - for David Goldheim. Dustin Carr works at ...

Network to provide help for businesses
Parsons Sun - Parsons,KS,USA
... To ease that burden, the Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship launched NetWork Kansas to provide business building services to small businesses and entrepreneurs ...

GU Author Says Finland a Model Knowledge Economy
Georgetown University News, Calendars & Events - Washington,DC,USA
... other key elements such as economic incentives, education, innovation and Finland ... editors argue that the major impetus to knowledge economy developments stemmed ...

Business basics to be taught to more teens
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... schools and youth programs, will announce at a Miami Beach reception that it is combining with the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to form...

'A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence' Ralph Waldo ...
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
Prosperity and an economy that rewards innovation have generated tremendous amounts of experimenting and data that help inform our economic and political...
 

April 9 - 15, 2006

Innovation on display Ivy Tech center promotes innovation in the ...
nwitimes.com - Munster,IN,USA
... The college's Gary campus-based Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center and local businesses are cosponsoring the events its Chancellor J. Guadalupe Valtierra...

Groves woman wins Lamar entrepreneurial award
Mid County Chronicle - Nederland,TX,USA
... IES Entrepreneurship Lecture Series speaker Cheryl Thompson-Draper presented the awards after her public lecture April 4. Thompson-Draper is the retired CEO...

Warning! Warning !
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
...In all, nine rookie Kansas City teams were among 28 from the Kansas City area that used grant funding from the Kauffman Foundation to join the international competition...

Wright speaks about edu. at minority conference
The Dartmouth - Hanover,NH,USA
... benefit black students. The discussion was facilitated by the Kansas City based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. According to the...

Finalists announced for Skandalaris entrepreneurship competition
Student Life - St-Louis,MO,USA
... of their seats when the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies announced the finalists for its Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (SEIC ...

Kauffman gives $15M for area math, science education
Kansas City Business Journal - MO, United States
... will be offered enhanced mathematics and science education starting next year thanks to a three-year, $15 million grant by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation ...

Study: Commercialized university research is undervalued
Kansas City Business Journal - MO, United States
... contributes more to the national economy than the government or universities measure, according to a new study paid for by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation ...

Still butting up against glass ceiling
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Maggie Kenefake, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's manager of the women's entrepreneurship program, said research shows that, despite their advances ...

Another View: Make whole state an 'enterprise zone'
Victorville Daily Press - Victorville,CA,USA
... Keating said; he's chief economist at the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, a pro-business group based in Washington, DC He said the policy has been ...

Educating entrepreneurs: Campuses foster boom
Indianapolis Star - United States
... companies. IU's Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation has received $2 million from Dick Johnson and his family. He owned ...

If entrepreneurship were a religion, RPI's Robert Chernow would be ...
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... "Rob has built an impressive history of executive leadership and innovation, but it's his passion for unleashing the spirit of entrepreneurship that sets him...

Research-center idea called costly
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
... Ohio’s ambitious program to fund scientific research to improve the state’s economy, would use the proposed Wright Mega-centers for Innovation for more...

Senator looks to lighten the load
Long Island Business News (subscription) - Ronkonkoma,NY,USA
... chairs the Senate’s Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, introduced the ... president and co-founder of Women Impacting Public Policy, a national...

Call to fight rising regionalism to achieve economic prosperity
Times of Oman - Oman
... on the subject of ‘Interfaith innovation and prosperity: Different voices, shared visions’ at the recent World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. ...

April 16 - 22, 2006

Entrepreneurship thrives
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
In response to "Teach Entrepreneurship" (April 9 Business Forum): The Belk College at UNCC indeed has a program in entrepreneurship, and it is thriving...

Cleary offers new degree for budding entrepreneurs
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
Cleary's entrepreneurship program will be available this fall as a bachelor's degree in business administration. It includes classes ...

Babson president produces podcast
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
... Barefoot also explained how the experience of keynote speakers Earvin "Magic" Johnson, who spoke about the importance of entrepreneurship in inner cities, and...

The SBA debate
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... research fellow at the Institute, who studies tax and budget policy and earlier... "Entrepreneurship is definitely one thing that Americans know how to do without...

More women owning businesses are going it alone
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... She was aided through a small-business program in Philadelphia called FastTrac, which is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. ...


AHS students work their way to national DECA competition
Anacortes American - Anacortes,WA,USA
... school and college students studying marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business ... under the School District’s nutrition and fitness policy, they are ...

Madrona Ventures Closes $167M Fund
Northwest innovation - Seattle,WA,USA
... total venture capital pool to over $400M. LPs in the fund included Investure, the James Irvine Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Oregon...

Manchester’s young professionals see city as a place to come to
Salem Observer - Salem,NH,USA
... In January, the group fielded an entrepreneurship seminar that drew former Gov... said the intent of the group wasn’t addressing major policy issues in the city...

Euro-Losers
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
... unassimilated and unwelcome immigrant blocks, torpid economies, suffocating taxes, legal codes that discourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and citizen...

Immigration Dominates Conversation at SBA's Annual Expo
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
... Carl Schramm, president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo.-based group that promotes entrepreneurship, said the US needed not only to...

US public research funds often lead to start-ups, study says
FinFacts Ireland - Ireland
US federally funded university cancer researchers are contributing more to the nation’s economy by commercializing their research at rates much higher than...

Great men
Boston Globe - United States
... had a chance to closely watch the people who have made a difference in the Boston economy. We are a place that has always made a living on innovation, and we ...

What this country needs is a little innovation
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... call for fresh, common-sense ideas that would energize the economy or improve ... A new innovation gives bus drivers the ability to electronically hold green lights ...

UNF students win regional competition
Jacksonville Business Journal - Jacksonville,FL,USA
... long community outreach projects to a panel of business leaders, the UNF team was selected as a finalist in the market economics, entrepreneurship and business ...

Entrepreneurship in the genes
Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
Education and opportunity commonly are thought to foster entrepreneurship, but a Case Western Reserve University professor and fellow researchers say genetic...

Seattle VC funds busy fueling up
Seattle Times - United States
... Investors include the James Irvine Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Oregon Growth Account, Quellos Private Capital and the University of...

April 23 - 29, 2006

Experts warn of crisis as two US deficits collide
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... In addition to meeting with more than 80 business and community leaders at a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation breakfast, Walker and the other coalition...

State launches strategic development plan INDIANA Innovation ...
nwitimes.com - Munster,IN,USA
... are key components of a new blueprint for rebuilding the Indiana economy. ... Indiana must, one, become a national leader of innovation and entrepreneurship and ...

Ernst & Young names entrepreneur award finalists
Kansas City Business Journal - MO, United States
... Nov. 18 in Palm Springs, Calif. The Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is the program's national sponsor. Central ...

$100 million prize for energy breakthrough?
MarketWatch - USA
... Shell Hydrogen, also praised the prizes, saying that they "stimulate innovation across a ... stage...on an issue that is important for the economy, the environment ...

Local entrepreneurship lets painters see green
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Online Edition - Blacksburg,VA,USA
Many students have already filled out countless summer job applications, searching for life beyond finals week – whether their aim is to suit up for an ...

Vets, tap into help for your entrepreneurial efforts
USA Today - USA
... subset deserving of special attention was recognized by Congress and President Clinton in 1999 with the passage of the Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small ...

KidBiz teaches entrepreneurship
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
By Lynn Turner. Eventually he'll have to buy a building ``and pay the electrical bill,'' the 10-year-old Portage boy said. Ollie ...

Online identity plan wins UW business competition
Milwaukee Business Journal - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... The competition is named for sponsor G. Steven Burrill, a longtime supporter of student innovation and technological entrepreneurship. ...

Groundwork begins for ‘innovation pipeline
Arizona State University - Tempe,USA
... expanding engineering education to include an entrepreneurship component,” says ... Commercialization: The Greater Phoenix Nanotechnology Innovation Pathway and ...

Nonprofits Face Obstacles to Accessing Investment Capital
AScribe - USA
... Support for the project has been provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and...

Emerson class invests in rising entrepreneurs
Boston Globe - United States
Ideas. Creative talent. Ambition. That's all the 15 Emerson College students had when they entered the college's inaugural entrepreneurship class in September...

Fresno State publishes region’s first ‘Innovation Index’
Fresno State News - Fresno,CA,USA
The report, “The Innovation Economy Agenda: Setting Priorities and Assessing Progress in the Central San Joaquin Valley Region,” was produced by the ...

Career calendar
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... 11:30 am April 26, Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City. $25 for members and $35 for others. Reservations. ...

Gordon Brown Backs NCGE-Kauffman Fellowships, Aims to Create ' ...
dBusinessNews Kansas City (press release) - Kansas City,MO,USA
Kansas City - KANSAS CITY -- The UK's National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) is joining forces with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in the ...

US willingness to change will decide our stake in innovation
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... over the next 15 years. Today we are producing a strong economy, job creation and good innovation. However, the degree to which ...

Networks Versus Communities
Line 56 News - USA
... Not only is this kind of issue entrepreneurship central to the making of public policy, but it is also central to the "politics," in the broad sense, of nearly ...

Stolen Property
National Review Online - New York,NY,USA
... As Shapiro says, innovation and creativity represents the comparative advantage of the US economy — it is what we do better than anyone else. ...

Black ventures take root in KC
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... And the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s entrepreneurship institute and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation finance start-up assistance programs for ...

Editorial: Brewing up a new economy
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
... this state a leader when its comes to quality and innovation. What made Milwaukee famous can still be a winning component of Wisconsin's economy especially if ...

Study: Strong intellectual property laws drive innovation economy
Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... copyrights and trade secrets play a critical role in supporting the development of nearly all the building blocks of our innovation economy: semiconductor chips...

Entrepreneurship Center Opens New Facility
ABC30.com - Fresno,CA,USA
... place to find help. The university opened the doors of its new center for innovation and entrepreneurship. The center moved into ...

Entrepreneurship gets a boost
Daily Pennsylvanian - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By vince levy. The Philadelphia Entrepreneurship Week, held this week, seeks to educate and encourage local entrepreneurs with a series of public events. ...

State grants Governor’s state $200,000 to entrepreneur center
Chicago Defender - IL, United States
... Director Jack Lavin were at Governors State University in University Park to celebrate the official opening of the CenterPoint Entrepreneurship Center. ...

Entrepreneurs, start your engines
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
The LSU Small Business Development Center, Louisiana Business & Technology Center, Entrepreneurship Institute and Business Report are once again hosting...

Inside Entrepreneurship: Women across the globe want to own ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... It makes me feel good." Ah, such happiness! Yes, entrepreneurship can lift a woman's self-esteem and position in meaningful ways...

Entrepreneurs honored by lawmakers
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
... The National Urban Entrepreneurial Partnership, the Ewing Kauffman Foundation and the Business Roundtable are giving the state $2 million over the next two ...

Black entrepreneurship expands
Boston Globe - United States
WASHINGTON -- Black-owned businesses are among the fastest-growing segments of the America ...

Value-added products, intellectual property will help region ...
Fresno Business Journal - Fresno,CA,USA
... Called the Innovation Economy Agenda, the report is a comprehensive snapshot of the region’s economic vitality during the past decade and is designed...
 

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