February
- This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy
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The recurring snowstorms last week and the President's Day work period combined for a quiet couple weeks on Capitol Hill -- no relevant hearings or meetings are currently scheduled.
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 15, 2010
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- Multiagency Initiative to Create Energy-Related Regional Innovation Cluster
- Seven federal agencies will
work together to leverage funding and resources to promote regional growth
through an
Energy Regional Innovation
Cluster (E-RIC).
The E-RIC will work to
disseminate new technologies into the local marketplace and share best practices
with the public and private sectors. The cluster...
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February 15, 2010
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- Skepticism about Obama’s Small Business Lending Plan
- An article in today’s Washington Independent, “Obama’s Small Business Lending
Plan Meets Skepticism,” lays out concerns with the President’s plan to make $30 billion in repaid TARP funds available for
small banks to lend to small businesses.
“There’s little indication
that these banks need the money — or that...
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February 15, 2010
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- The Untapped Potential of Research Universities
- Everyone surely owns an innovative product that has its roots in a university lab, or knows someone that has benefited from the presence of start-ups that formed through the dissemination of knowledge and technologies from the university to the marketplace. Universities have been the lifeblood...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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February 15, 2010
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Technology Transfer
- Lack of Female Entrepreneurs: A Societal Failure
- Vivek Wadhwa recently discussed why women are so poorly represented in tech and other high-growth businesses in Boy's Club: The Dearth of Female Entrepreneurs.
Wadhwa argues that the lack of female entrepreneurs is a societal failure, citing evidence that men and women entrepreneurs are similar in...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 10, 2010
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General
- 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...
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February 10, 2010
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Education
Technology Transfer
- Race and Entrepreneurial Success
- Why do Asian American-owned businesses do well in comparison to white-owned businesses, and why do African American-owned firms do poorly in relation to both? Economics professor Robert W. Fairlie and Kauffman senior research fellow Alicia M. Robb explore these issues in Race and Entrepreneurial Success:...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 10, 2010
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General
- Rationalize Our Immigration System
- In the hopes to continue a much-needed conversation on how to revamp the economy, this week I would like to highlight another policy recommendation that emerged from the Kauffman Foundation’s State of Entrepreneurship address: reform immigration policy to attract migrants who want to start new companies...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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February 08, 2010
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- Michigan Prioritizes Entrepreneurship
- During her State of the State address, Gov. Jennifer Granholm laid out initiatives to help entrepreneurs.
One of these initiatives involves entrepreneurship training through the expansion of the FastTrac program being offered at Detroit's TechTown. The FastTrac program, a national effort by the Kauffman Foundation...
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February 08, 2010
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Workforce
- A Look at Obama's Plan for Small Business
- Within the past week President Obama outlined several proposals to help small business create jobs: $30 billion of federal bailout funds redirected to community banks to lend to small business Tax credits for new hires and wage increases Elimination of capital-gains tax on investments in small business Tax incentives...
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February 08, 2010
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