March
- A Look at Innovation Daily (March 8 - 14, 2010)
- Each day, Innovation Daily checks the pulse of global innovation -- courtesy of Innovation America and its founder, Rich Bendis. Here, we take a look at a handful of relevant stories it compiled last week: Tech Entrepreneurship: Does the City You Live in Even Matter? (from...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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March 15, 2010
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- Global Entrepreneurship: A Common Language
- Last week’s Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) in Dubai was a historic gathering not only because -- under the patronage of Sheik Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan of the UAE -- it brought together entrepreneurship leaders from nearly 100 nations, but because it heralded a new era...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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March 15, 2010
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- What America Needs
- Texas’ Wilson County News published an interesting essay by Craig Columbus about education and solving the job crisis, “What America Needs: A Bumper Crop of Young Entrepreneurs.”
The insufficient private sector job growth, the author argues, signals the need to produce more entrepreneurs. Ironically, America’s...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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March 11, 2010
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- States and Cities Efforts to Help Small Businesses
- Elizabeth Olson’s New York Times article “What States and Cities are Doing to Help Small Businesses” highlights several initiatives at the state and municipality levels to save small businesses and jobs.
The local approaches are as varied as subsidizing wages for new hires, running a...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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March 10, 2010
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- Nationwide 'Startup Tour' to Find the Best Startups in America
- Robert X. Cringely, author of the technology blog “I, Cringely” (www.cringely.com), has launched a plan to restart the economy called “Cringely's (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour.” People are invited to nominate startup companies in six different categories, discuss them, and vote for favorites on...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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March 10, 2010
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- Job Generating High-Growth Firms
- According to a new Kauffman Foundation study, High-Growth Firms and the Future of the American Economy, high-growth firms account for a disproportionate share of job creation despite their relatively small numbers.
More specifically, the study showed, that so-called “gazelle” firms (ages three to five) comprise...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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March 10, 2010
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Immigration
Technology Transfer
- States’ Antiquated IT Infrastructure
- Vivek Wadhwa, senior research associate at the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University, has a new article on BusinessWeek. In “States, Innovate in IT or Else,” Wadhwa looks at the way antiquated and expensive IT systems...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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March 10, 2010
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Physical Infrastructure
- Entrepreneurship in the Arab World: A Report from Dubai
- It is an important week for entrepreneurship in the Middle East. Here in Dubai, two important global summits will be convened by His Excellency, Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, United Arab Emirates Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Carl Schramm, President of the...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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March 08, 2010
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- Rockstar Entrepreneurs in DC to Push for a StartUp Visa
- More than a dozen rockstar entrepreneurs and startup financiers have decided it was time to visit Washington, DC. They have taken three days of their busy schedules this week to push for the passage StartUp Visa Act of 2010, a bill that would make it...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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March 08, 2010
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Immigration
- A Look at Innovation Daily (March 1-7, 2010)
- Each day, Innovation Daily checks the pulse of global innovation -- courtesy of Innovation America and its founder, Rich Bendis. Here, we take a look at a handful of relevant stories it compiled last week: And Google Begat... (from BusinessWeek) Why CEOs Don't Get Innovation...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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March 08, 2010
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