2009
- Fernandez confirmed at EDA
- President Obama's selection to head the Economic Development Administration, John Fernandez, was confirmed yesterday by the U.S. Senate. The following is a press release issued by the Commerce Department: JOHN R. FERNANDEZ CONFIRMED AS U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTWASHINGTON -- U.S. Commerce Secretary...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 11, 2009
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- The Building Blocks of Innovation
- PDE staff attended today a briefing on education and immigration hosted by the Council for American Medical Innovation. Our report of the event follows:At a Capitol Hill briefing titled "Education & Immigration: Building Blocks of Innovation," the Council for American Medical Innovation President Debra Lappin...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 10, 2009
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- 'Doing Business' Rankings Stimulating Reform
- The overview of the Doing Business Report 2010 is now available. Since 2004, the World Bank’s Doing Business project has been tracking regulatory reforms in 10 areas of business regulation that record the time and cost to meet government requirements in starting and operating a...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 10, 2009
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- US Falls in Global Competitiveness Rankings
- The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010, an assessment of the productive potential of nations worldwide, is now available. Switzerland tops the overall competitiveness rankings, followed by the United States. The U.S. fell to second position after several years at the top of the...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 09, 2009
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- Small Businesses FAQs
- The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy released its annual update to its “Frequently Asked Questions” document. It estimates that there were 29.6 million small businesses in the U.S. in 2008. An estimated 627,200 new employer firms began operation in 2008, and 595,600 firms closed...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 08, 2009
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- Entrepreneurs As a Solution to Policy Challenges
- In the past few months, we have highlighted through articles and factsheets how public policy can make the path easier for entrepreneurship and innovation. With the Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship, we hope to emphasize not only how policies can foster entrepreneurs, but also how entrepreneurship can directly be part of...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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September 07, 2009
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- Modernizing the Labor Movement: “The Entrepreneurial Union”
- Amy Wilkinson, senior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Business and Government and public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been researching and writing about entrepreneurial leadership. In a recent piece for the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “The Entrepreneurial...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 03, 2009
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Health Care
- Regulate Venture Capitalists?
- A discussion on regulating venture capitalists is building up as new legislative proposals in Congress would require private pools of investment capital to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The objectives of such legislation are to protect the public from abuses and...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 02, 2009
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- Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Deadline Approaching
- This is a reminder that the deadline for the 2010 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program is approaching quickly -- all proposals must be submitted by 7:00 p.m. (Central) on Wednesday, September 23, 2009. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation supports doctoral students through the Kauffman Dissertation...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 01, 2009
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- Boom in Entrepreneurship Just Down the Road
- Earlier this summer, we reported on a recent study by Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation that showed Baby Boomers are sparking a rise in entrepreneurship and that young, tech-savvy upstarts like Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Rose were still outliers. Yesterday, Carl Schramm, president and...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 01, 2009
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