Highlighting policies and initiatives to advance innovation and drive economic growth

Highlights from House Science and Technology Agenda

On January 19, Rep. Bart Gordon announced the 2010 legislative agenda for the House Committee on Science and Technology. Innovation and energy and STEM education lead the priorities list.As part of its effort to maintain U.S. competitiveness through innovation, the Committee plans to work on Reautho... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/10/2010 13:35 PM | Comments (15)
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Recognizing Student Contributions to Solving World Problems

The Kauffman Foundation has awarded a grant to Olin College of Engineering to implement a nationwide award competition that will recognize students’ contributions to solving the major challenges facing the world today. The “Extraordinary Stories Student Awards” will be given to ... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/08/2010 09:13 AM | Comments (11)
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Educating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

As the nation seeks solutions to joblessness, policymakers and the media have been looking at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), an organization that has skillfully been tapping on our youth’s inventiveness and entrepreneurial potential through entrepreneurship education. The me... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/08/2010 09:04 AM | Comments (9)
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This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy

Thursday, February 4, 2010House Appropriations Committee - Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies - Hearing"Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education 2"10:00 AM[more info] Thursday, February 4, 2010House Science and Technology Committee - Subcommittee on... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/01/2010 08:54 AM | Comments (128)
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Tapping your Entrepreneurial IQ

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI) have launched a new online program to identify the entrepreneurial mindset. “Mindset: Tapping your entrepreneurial IQ” provides an inside look at the underlying beliefs that drive behavior that enables... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 01/28/2010 15:25 PM | Comments (29)
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Real Support for Entrepreneurs: What Are We Waiting For?

So we know that entrepreneurs are the primary engines of job creation in the United States. Research study after research study has confirmed that it is young firms that drive improvements in the employment situation. From 1980–2005, firms less than five years old accounted for all net jo... [More]
Posted By: Jonathan Ortmans at 01/25/2010 09:09 AM | Comments (14)
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Top 50 College Entrepreneurship Programs for 2009

Colleges and universities are increasingly devoting energy and resources to building attractive entrepreneurship programs. Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review developed a rank of the top 25 undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs in the United States.The top 3 undergraduate p... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 01/20/2010 14:24 PM | Comments (16)
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Innovate to Educate

President Obama recently announced that the U.S. government is committed to restoring the nation's leadership in educating children in math and science, and launched a new “Educate to Innovate” campaign. The campaign will bring together teachers, parents, businesses and the media to ... [More]
Posted By: Jonathan Ortmans at 12/13/2009 23:55 PM | Comments (158)
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Rising Interest in Entrepreneurship Career Choice

A new Kauffman Foundation study revealed that interest in entrepreneurship among first-year college students has risen over time. Trends in Business Interest Among U.S. College Students bases its findings on data available through the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, which for 40 years ha... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 11/18/2009 14:35 PM | Comments (71)
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Universities: Incubators of Entrepreneurial Talent

Not too long ago, entrepreneurship education was part of the curriculum of few university programs across the country. In 2003, the Kauffman Campuses initiative started to help seed cross-campus entrepreneurship programs at dozens of American universities, thereby allowing more young people to explo... [More]
Posted By: Jonathan Ortmans at 10/26/2009 13:50 PM | Comments (33)
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