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New Sketchbook Video Illustrates GEW Impact

Global Entrepreneurship Week is an idea bigger than the thousands of communities around the world that make it up. That idea and the benefits of engaging a global community working to advance entrepreneurship are the subject of the latest Kauffman Foundation animated sketchbook video released last week.

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Posted by: Anonymous
on October 22, 2012
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Category:  Global 
This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy

Congress is in recess with members back in their home states and districts as they focus on campaign work over the next several weeks. They will return to Washington at some point after the November 6 election.

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Posted by: Mark Marich
on October 22, 2012
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Category:  Capitol Hill 
A Look Back at Innovation Daily

Each day, Innovation Daily checks the pulse of global innovation--courtesy of Innovation America. Here, we take a look at a handful of relevant stories it compiled last week.

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Posted by: Mark Marich
on October 22, 2012
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Category:  General 
Startup Fever Heats Up in Africa

I report this week from Africa which is enjoying its greatest economic success in decades and where there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. With economic growth rates this year around 6 percent in one-third of the 49 sub-Saharan African countries, the IMF forecasts that Africa will have the fastest-growing economy of any continent over the next five years. The World Bank in turn has reported earlier this month that more than 20 sub-Saharan African countries, encompassing more than 400 million people, have gained middle-income status, while the number of people living in poverty is down by roughly 10 percentage points over the past decade.

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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
on October 22, 2012
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Category:  Global 
Creating Sustainable Startup Communities

Brad Feld, managing director of the Foundry Group and tireless advocate for entrepreneurs and startups everywhere, is featured in a new sketchbook video from the Kauffman Foundation.

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Posted by: Anonymous
on October 15, 2012
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Category:  General 
The New Demand for Data

When I asked two U.S. Senators from different parties earlier this year how they managed to work together on startup legislation during an election year, both talked of “credible, robust data” as their starting point. Last week I participated in the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) 3rd Annual Global Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Conference at George Washington University to see what was emerging outside the United States.

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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
on October 15, 2012
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Angels in Recovery—But Still Have a Ways to Go

According to the latest survey from the Center for Venture Research a the University of New Hampshire, the angel investor market is showing promising signs of recovery—across the board in terms of dollars invested, total numbers of investments and total number of investors.

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Posted by: Mark Marich
on October 15, 2012
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Category:  General 
This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy

Congress is in recess with members back in their home states and districts as they focus on campaign work over the next several weeks. They will return to Washington at some point after the November 6 election.

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Posted by: Mark Marich
on October 15, 2012
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Category:  Capitol Hill 
A Look Back at Innovation Daily

Each day, Innovation Daily checks the pulse of global innovation--courtesy of Innovation America. Here, we take a look at a handful of relevant stories it compiled last week.

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Posted by: Mark Marich
on October 15, 2012
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Category:  General 
Target High-Growth, Not High-Tech

If someone asked you to name the U.S. city with the highest percentage of high-growth companies, the safest response--and one given by most everyone--would be San Francisco, probably followed by Boston. But while those two are in the top 5, they trail Washington, DC, Salt Lake City and Austin. In fact, the nation's capital even comes out on top when it comes to raw totals.

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Posted by: Mark Marich
on October 08, 2012
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Category:  General 

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