Newsroom: National News Archive 2006

December 3 - 9, 2006

Awards Presented to Nation's Top Teens in Math, Science and ...
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
... Prizes also went to individual winners. "These students represent the best of America's spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation," Secretary Spellings said. ...

Napolitano to unveil national innovation task force
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... The innovation economy is perhaps America's best chance to maintain its advantage over nations such as China and India that are able to mass-produce goods ...

High school entrepreneur program teaches students link between ...
San Mateo County Times - San Mateo,CA,USA
... They are students of a business entrepreneurship class taught at McClymonds High School provided by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. ...

IT as a revenue center
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
... And finally, entrepreneurship has become cool again, if not obligatory, for IT. ... “There’sa lot more pull for innovation now,” says Forrester principal ...

A good business plan is an owner's best friend
Indianapolis Star - United States
... positions in what we like to call the 'innovation economy,'." said ... Don Blewett, associate director of the Burton Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at Purdue ...

Outsourcing exec to US: Do the math
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... I think innovation here is improving, getting more aggressive ... It's an ecosystem of creativity, an ecosystem of entrepreneurship, an ecosystem of venture capital ...

December 10 - 16, 2006

UMBC wins $2M from Kauffman Foundation
Baltimore Business Journal - Baltimore,MD,USA
...The university said Thursday it won the grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, which encourages entrepreneurial activity...

NW Florida Region receives $15 M in economic development grants
Gulf Breeze News - FL, USA
... The Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) program ... Entrepreneurship development designed to enable qualifying start-up companies to ...

A model for tackling the energy challenge
Boston Globe - United States
... a generation of children to believe that they could play a role in the nation's most exciting ambition and providing fuel for the nation's innovation economy...

ASU awarded $5M to unleash entrepreneurial spirit
Phoenix Business Journal, AZ - 17 hours ago
As part of a $200 million effort to transform the way entrepreneurship education is taught, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation awarded the school a grant...

The Afterlife of Business Plan Contest Winners
BusinessWeek - USA
... The Kauffman Foundation inventoried 2,136 universities with entrepreneurship programs and found 353 business plan contests in 2006, more than double the 157 it ...

Future entrepreneurs
Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ,USA
... innovative workshops. "The terms entrepreneurship and innovation can be used interchangeably," Archambault said. Archambault, who ...

For entrepreneur, 'angels' are answer to his prayers
Indianapolis Star - United States
... "We're aware of 250 angel groups in the United States," said Marianne Hudson, director of angel initiatives at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation...

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