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Washington Rolls Out Red Carpet for Global Entrepreneurship
 This afternoon, President Obama addressed the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship organized by the Department of State and the Department of Commerce following his promise in Cairo last June. The event is designed to promote entrepreneurship in Africa, the Middle East, and South, Central and Southeast Asia as a tool for economic and development policy and to fulfill the President's commitment to broaden and deepen ties between the United States and Muslim communities around the world.
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From the Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship Blog
Summit Delegates Make Their Way to Washington
Individuals from more than 50 countries are on their way to Washington to serve as delegates to the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship. America.gov is telling the stories of several of those amazing delegates. [More]
Streamlining Research Commercialization
A new paper by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Facilitating the Commercialization of University Innovation: The Carolina Express License Agreement, presents a novel licensing process for commercializing university research that can support American universities' startup companies and enable long-term economic growth. [More]
From the University to the Marketplace
Many universities have specific plans to foster university start-ups, including the University of Wisconsin whose accelerator program through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) was recently featured by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. [More]
COMPETES Introduced in the House
Last Friday, the House Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) introduced HR 5116, America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010. [More]
Is U.S. Turning Away Entrepreneurs?
ABCNews has an interesting article, 'Shooting Itself in the Foot': Is U.S. Turning Away Entrepreneurs?, describing the growing movement in favor of new immigration policy specifically for skilled foreign workers as immigration reform becomes a future hot button issue. [More]
This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy
While Washington deals with the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship and related events, only a couple relevant hearings are slated for the Hill. House Science & Technology has a markup for the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 while Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship explores expanding small business internet access. [More]
VC & Startups Roundtable
Who are angel investors? How do they contribute to the life cycle of a company? Where do they invest? These questions and more will be examined at roundtable and webinar hosted by the National Association for Business Economics this week. [More]
A Look Back at Innovation Daily
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 the last week. [More]
Every Day is Earth Day for Small Business
The divisive language that permeates discourse in our nation's capital is distant from the reality of main street where the interests of business and the environment co-exist. It only makes sense that small businesses would care deeply about the environment. [More]
Boulder, Colorado: A Town for Startups
According to a new article by Vivek Wadhwa in BusinessWeek, Boulder, Colorado is the top U.S. destination for new tech companies largely because of a bottom-up revolution led by entrepreneurs. [More]
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