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Incubating Success
11/14/2011
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) funded a research study to examine the relationship between incubator best practices and client outcomes.

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Watch the 2012 State of Entrepreneurship Address
2/13/2012
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At the 2012 State of Entrepreneurship Address, held February 9, 2012, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation interim president and CEO Benno C. Schmidt, along with National Governors Association (NGA) leaders Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman and Delaware Governor Jack Markell, called for state and local government policy changes to foster entrepreneurship and accelerate economic growth.

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This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy
5/7/2012
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Members of Congress return from a short recess to a handful of committee hearings this week, including a look at how skyrocketing costs on gasoline are impacting small firms by the House Committee on Small Business.

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This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy
5/7/2012
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Members of Congress return from a short recess to a handful of committee hearings this week, including a look at how skyrocketing costs on gasoline are impacting small firms by the House Committee on Small Business.

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Startups Key to Growth in Postconflict Areas
5/21/2012
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Entrepreneurs have an important role to play in reconstruction efforts in conflict and post-conflict zones to create sustainable economic growth and stability. But first they need a level playing field—or at least something close to level—and in far too many cases the international aid community is focused on microenterprise at the exclusion of potential high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurs.

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Startups Key to Growth in Postconflict Areas
5/21/2012
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Entrepreneurs have an important role to play in reconstruction efforts in conflict and post-conflict zones to create sustainable economic growth and stability. But first they need a level playing field—or at least something close to level—and in far too many cases the international aid community is focused on microenterprise at the exclusion of potential high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurs.

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A Look Back at Innovation Daily January 30
1/30/2012
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Each day, Innovation Daily checks the pulse of global innovation-- courtesy of Innovation America. Here, we take a look at a handful of relevant stories it compiled last week:

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A Look Back at Innovation Daily (Oct. 26- Nov. 1)
11/1/2010
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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: Top 5 Tech Trends for 2011(Information Week)...

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Kauffman Foundation introduces iStart
8/16/2010
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The following press release was just issued by the Kauffman Foundation about the iStart, a new Web-based platform that helps organizations simplify how they market and administer business plan competitions worldwide. New Hub for Business Plan Competitions to Create Access, Transparency for Entrepreneurial Community Worldwide (Kansas...

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What the President Should Say Tomorrow
Cushman Cameron
1/24/2011
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Dear Mr. President, the nation's entrepreneurs are counting on you tomorrow night. Want to use your State of the Union speech to lay out a plan for real economic growth? Here's what you should say.

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