Newsroom: National News Archive 2006

August 13 - 19, 2006

Culver: IPERS should aid start-ups
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... as risky to the pension program and wrongheaded economic development policy. ... better in growing our small businesses and promoting entrepreneurship statewide in ...

US economy's edge: entrepreneurs
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
... suggest that fostering new businesses will do more for an economy than propping ... IBM, for example, just held a worldwide "innovation jam" to generate fresh ideas ...

Harvard professor wins Kauffman prize
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded 2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship to Toby Stuart, a ...

Ministry Teaches Families Biblical Models for Entrepreneurial Success
WDC Media News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... as a place of different generations working together," he explains, and the program teaches that even in the process of working, entrepreneurship is "part...

Rural Communities to be a Priority for Senate Ag Committee
Southwest Nebraska News - NE,USA
... “To correct this, Mr. Hassebrook promotes an entrepreneurship initiative to breathe new life into our rural communities,” said Nelson. ...

Minding their own business
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... Kansas City’s Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation recently announced a second Kauffman Campuses Initiative with a $35 million commitment to colleges and ..

Toy fair brings out the best in gradeschool inventors
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,NE,USA
... The week-long camp is not just about innovation, though that’s the ... out there, said Elaine Warren, coordinator of the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship. ...

Panel says US is losing ground in math, science
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... enough to attract the best instructors, and a national economy that doesn't ... to building an economic future based on scientific and technological innovation. ...

Kauffman Foundation awards $75k Grant to Metropolitan Community ...
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
... With the assistance of the Kauffman Foundation, MCC's ultimate goal is to develop a national community college entrepreneurship model for educational and ...

UMKC institute named as Missouri Innovation Center
Kansas City Business Journal - MO, United States
... Deliver resources needed by new and existing businesses to drive business growth. "The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation offers young innovators ...

New NGA boss pushes school, tech reforms
eSchool News - Bethesda,MD,USA
... Napolitano launched her "Innovation America" initiative Aug. ... especially in the areas of math and science, to better meet the needs of the new global economy. ...

Entrepreneurship Group Spurs Growth
WOWK - Huntington,WV,USA
... a group of local professionals who recently met for a 10-week FastTrac course -- a hands-on development program developed by the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas ...

‘Gender gap’ affects patents
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... “It’s an economic concern,” said Lesa Mitchell, vice president of advancing innovation at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. ...

August 27 - September 2, 2006

The old college try
Indianapolis Star - United States
... "We're seeing more students with the courage to try things," said Donald F. Kuratko, who heads IU's Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. ...

Gauging the age of invention
Worcester Telegram (subscription) - Worcester,MA,USA
... startups are responsible for 60 percent to 80 percent of net new job generation, according to the US Small Business Administration and the Kauffman Foundation. ...

Mayors join forces to promote Milwaukee and Madison
Milwaukee Small Business Times - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... "These two cities must compete in a global economy, and that ... The "I" stands for ideas, innovation, intellectual property, investment and interstate and the "Q ...

New high school will take care of business
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... Only this is no typical high school. The Leadership & Entrepreneurship Public Charter High School opened four weeks ago in Northeast Portland. ...

Entrepreneurship Drives Louisiana's Post-Storm Economy
Market Wire (press release) - USA
NEW ORLEANS, LA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- August 29, 2006 -- At the one-year mark of Hurricane Katrina, the dialogue over what went wrong continues, as the people o ...

Plaza to feature student-run carts
The Chronicle - Durham,North Carolina,USA
... said she and her partners were inspired by a public policy class three ... That concept of social entrepreneurship spurred junior Hasnain Zaidi, a Halcyon partner...

Catching the entrepreneurship bug
CMU The Tartan Online - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Entrepreneur, a magazine titled after its target audience, reported in December 2004 that business owners and entrepreneurship education programs were on the ...

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