March
- This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy (March 8-12, 2010)
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
House Science and Technology Committee- Subcommittee on Research & Science Education - Hearing
"The National Science Foundation’s FY 2011 Budget Request"
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2318
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee - Hearing
"Advancing American innovation...
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- Maximizing the Potential of University Inventions
- Robert Litan, vice-president of research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, has a new article explaining why the federal government should require universities receiving research grants to allow faculty inventors the right to choose their licensing agent. In this article, Litan responds to...
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March 04, 2010
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Technology Transfer
- New “Invest in America Alliance” to Support Start-ups and Create Jobs
- Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini announced that Intel will spearhead a $3.5 billion technology investment initiative in a speech titled "Rebuilding the Foundations of American Growth," delivered at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
The Invest in America Alliance represents the venture capital industry’s commitment...
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March 04, 2010
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- The ARPA-E Innovation Summit
- From March 1st-3rd, policymakers, thought leaders, award winners and investors gathered in Washington, DC for the first ARPA-E Innovation Summit.
Secretary Chu announced that the third round of ARPA-E funding of $100 million will be made available to accelerate innovation in three new areas for...
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March 04, 2010
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- A Look at Innovation Daily (Week of Feb 20 to Feb 26)
- 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 from last week:
Five nations boosting their culture of innovation
(The Christian...
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March 01, 2010
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- New Online ‘Energy Innovation Network’
- The Kauffman Foundation has launched an online “Energy Innovation Network” to help close the gap between energy innovations and increasing consumer demand.
The clean energy industry is taking an ever-increasing role in jump-starting the economy and creating new jobs; more than $80 billion has already been...
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March 01, 2010
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- Entrepreneurship, a Social Phenomenon
- Carl Schramm has new article explaining why “All Entrepreneurship is Social.” Writing for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Schramm explained the dangers of using the modifier social:
One danger, however, is that the use of the modifier social will diminish the contributions of regular entrepreneurs—that...
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March 01, 2010
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- A Role for Entrepreneurs in Haiti
- Haitians have received help from governments, the private sector and the philanthropic community around the world to deal with the awful devastation, but the long term goal of rebuilding a nation and constructing institutions from scratch will require sustained commitment to the country. I can’t...
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March 01, 2010
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Global
- This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy (March 1-5, 2010)
- Tuesday, March 02, 2010Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee - Subcommittee on Economic Policy - Hearing"Restoring Credit to Main Street: Proposals to Fix Small Business Borrowing and Lending Problems"9:30 a.m.538 Dirsken Senate Office Building[more info] Wednesday, March 3, 2010 House...
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March 01, 2010
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