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Where Will the Jobs Come From

Using United States Census Bureau data from 2006-2007, this paper examines net new job creation in terms of firm age rather than firm size, showing that young firms (defined as one to five years ol...
  • entrepreneurship published this 11 / 16 / 2009
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The Economic Future Just Happened

According to a new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, challenging economic times can serve as the rebirth of entrepreneurial capitalism, leading to the creation of much-needed new jobs.
  • entrepreneurship published this 08 / 10 / 2009
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Sources of Financing for New Technology Firms: A Comparison by Gender

Women entrepreneurs launch high-technology firms with less financial capital than men, and continue to follow a different financial strategy over time. Women's reliance on internal funding sources ...
  • entrepreneurship published this 08 / 10 / 2009
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The Use of Credit Card Debt by New Firms

Credit card debt reduces the likelihood that a new business will survive its first three years of operation, according to findings from the study, The Use of Credit Card Debt by New Firms, released...
  • entrepreneurship published this 08 / 10 / 2009
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Business Dynamics Statistics Briefing: High Growth and Failure of Young Firms

Business startups that survive grow faster than more-established companies, according to Business Dynamics Statistics data funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. However, because entrepren...
  • entrepreneurship published this 08 / 10 / 2009
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The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur: Family Background and Motivation

Although entrepreneurs provide the majority of jobs in the United States, little is known about what makes them tick. The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur fills in some gaps by providing insights into hi...
  • entrepreneurship published this 08 / 10 / 2009
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The Coming Entrepreneurship Boom

Emerging Kauffman Foundation research indicates the United States might be on the cusp of an entrepreneurship boom—not in spite of an aging population but because of it. This study shows that as th...
  • entrepreneurship published this 08 / 10 / 2009
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Right-Sizing the U.S. Venture Capital Industry

The U.S. venture capital industry is at an inflection point. It has had many successes over the last three decades, and is prominent worldwide for its role in financially catalyzing notable, high-g...
  • entrepreneurship published this 08 / 10 / 2009
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Assessing Risk and Return: Personalized Medicine Development and New Innovation Paradigm

As the biopharmaceutical industry faces declining productivity and innovation, personalized medicine—the concept that a person’s genetic makeup could be used to tailor medical care to that individu...
  • entrepreneurship published this 05 / 25 / 2009
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Economic Crisis Survey

Americans see entrepreneurship as the answer to the current financial crisis — but worries about the economy are deterring them from taking the first step on that path, according to the Economic Cr...
  • entrepreneurship published this 05 / 25 / 2009
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2008 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey Brief

New data about total and newly registered businesses in more than 100 industrial and developing countries suggests that a strong business environment can encourage entrepreneurial activity. For exa...
  • entrepreneurship published this 05 / 25 / 2009
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Business Dynamics Statistics: An Overview

The Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) includes measures of establishment openings and closings, firm startups, job creation and destruction by firm size, age, and industrial sector, and several ot...
  • entrepreneurship published this 05 / 25 / 2009
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Business Dynamics Statistics Briefing: Jobs Created from Business Startups in the United States

Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau—the Business Dynamics Statistics—show that employment accounted for by U.S. private-sector business startups over the 1980-2005 period is about 3 per...
  • entrepreneurship published this 05 / 25 / 2009
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Kauffman Survey: Entrepreneurship and Economic Recovery

Americans want to see more initiatives that aid small businesses, according to the Kauffman Survey: Entrepreneurship and Economic Recovery by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The survey, condu...
  • entrepreneurship published this 05 / 20 / 2009
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Losing the World's Best and Brightest: New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part V

Immigrants historically have contributed to some of America’s most successful businesses and innovations. Lessening the number of foreign national students in U.S. jobs may be detrimental to the ec...
  • entrepreneurship published this 05 / 20 / 2009
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Kauffman Economic Bloggers Survey

America’s top economics bloggers—a diverse group of writers with wide-ranging intellectual and political vantage points—largely agree on one important issue: To help speed the recovery, remove barr...
  • entrepreneurship published this 05 / 20 / 2009
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Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT Executive Summary

This Kauffman Foundation study demonstrates the critical role universities play not only in fostering innovation and entrepreneurial growth, but in stimulating the much-needed recovery in regional ...
  • entrepreneurship published this 03 / 24 / 2009
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Finding Business Idols: A New Model to Accelerate Start-Ups

Just as the "American Idol" television series is revolutionizing the music business by having amateurs compete for top spots, a group of entrepreneurs are quietly adopting a similar format to chang...
  • entrepreneurship published this 03 / 24 / 2009
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Minorities and Venture Capital: A New Wave in American Business

This study found that investments in minority business enterprises (MBEs) resulted in healthy returns equal to, if not slightly higher than, traditional investments by mainstream venture capitalist...
  • entrepreneurship published this 03 / 24 / 2009
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Gatekeepers of Venture Growth: The Role and Participation of Women in the Venture Capital Industry

Women represent less than 10 percent of high-level venture capitalists, and they have been leaving the industry at twice the rate of men, according to a study produced by the Diana Project, and spo...
  • entrepreneurship published this 03 / 24 / 2009
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