February
- 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 students who have completed science...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 08, 2010
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Education
- The Economic Power of University Spin-offs
- According to Krisztina Holly, vice provost for innovation at the University of Southern California and former founding executive director of MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, “an opportunity to solve our job crisis lies right under our noses.”
In an opinion piece for CNN, Holly explained:...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 08, 2010
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Technology Transfer
- 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 media has been highlighting the impressive...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 08, 2010
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- Leading Economics Bloggers Share Grim Outlook
- The Kauffman Foundation has released the findings of its inaugural Economic Outlook: A Quarterly Survey of Top Economics Bloggers.As we reported on Monday, more than 200 top economics bloggers who participated in the mid-January survey graded on an A to F grading scale U.S. institutions...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 03, 2010
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General
- Facts on Job Creation
- In light of President Obama's State of the Union pledge to make the creation of a million jobs his priority in the year to come, the Kauffman Foundation has compiled a list of related facts and studies:• Why it is that young firms—not necessarily small...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 03, 2010
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General
- Young Firms (and our Nation) Need a Payroll Tax Holiday
- The unemployment pressure does not appear to abate. Layoffs continue every day and despite massive government intervention for economic recovery, there is little evidence of anything more than a slow, prolonged recovery. It is time to give a payroll tax holiday for young firms.Different forms...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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February 01, 2010
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Tax Code
- Bloggers to Grade Economic Institutions
- On an A to F grading scale, top economics bloggers grade U.S. institutions and organizations that influence the economy in a new Kauffman survey that is coming out tomorrow. The nation's top economics bloggers give the highest marks to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 01, 2010
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General
