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  • Advancing Innovation Along the Long Tail 

    Laura Dorival Paglione, Director, Kauffman Innovation Network, discusses moving away from narrow markets ruled by "the tyranny of the hit" (the old focus on best-sellers) to focus on the "long tail" markets where non-hits and specialty goods can flourish as well.

  • Beyond Licensing and Incubators 

    After years of studying how innovation works (or fails to work) in and around universities, says Lesa Mitchell, Vice President, Advancing Innovation, the Kauffman Foundation is finding emerging new solutions to accelerate innovation and commercialization at universities.

  • Expect More -- Do More 

    john_tyler_200In an article published in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, Kauffman Foundation General Counsel John Tyler exposes the absent and weak links between vision, policies and practices of universities and federal policy for advancing innovations.

  • Expediting University Startups: A Step Toward Advancing America’s Prosperity 

    Our nation’s universities produce some of the most important basic and applied research in the world, contributing to America’s competitiveness and prosperity in the global economy. University spinoff companies have the potential to become high-growth firms, in some cases creating entire new industries that not only change our lives but also generate hundreds of thousands of jobs.

  • How a Dose of Reality Can Make Science More Visionary 

    E. A. Fitzgerald, Professor of Materials Engineering, MIT, asks How do we know that university scientists are working on the best possible research projects to begin with? The ones with the greatest chances of bearing the most fruit?
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