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  • Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs: An Underestimated American Resource 

    Vivek Wadhwa explains that his research shows that immigrant entrepreneurs have brought enormous economic benefits and innovations to the United States—further reinforcing the fact that the United States provides a fertile environment for spawning entrepreneurship.

  • The State of Entrepreneurship in Europe—An Investor's View 

    In this interview with Sir Ronald Cohen, the author of The Second Bounce of the Ball: Turning Risk into Opportunity shares his thoughts on entrepreneurship in Europe, how it has changed in the past 30 years, and what policy changes can encourage entrepreneurship.

  • Aiding the Drivers of Economic Growth 

    Carlos M. Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, says that we need new benchmarks for a fuller understanding of the impact of innovation, and to help both government and businesses identify and devise innovation-promoting policies that create value and growth.

  • Crossing the Divide: Entrepreneurial Law 

    Thomas Morsch, J.D., discusses ways to bridge the gap between lawyers who tend to be risk-averse and entrepreneurs who embrace risk so that entrepreneurs can get the legal services they need.

  • Entrepreneurship in US Higher Education 

    By making entrepreneurship education available across all disciplines, American college students will become more aware of entrepreneurial activity and its importance, says William Scott Green, Chair of the Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education.
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  • The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date 

    It was once common knowledge that the world was flat, and later, that the universe revolved around the Earth. Those are fallacies from long ago, but what about the myths of this century? Wasn't it just a few years ago

  • How America Can Achieve Better Capitalism 

    In the wake of the Great Recession and America's sluggish recovery from it, economists, policymakers, media pundits and "armchair commentators" in living rooms across America have argued about what has gone wrong with American capitalism. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerged. Better Capitalism: Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy cuts through the chatter and offers a detailed, practical blueprint to restore the vigor of the American economy.

  • Understanding the Economy, One Business at a Time 

    Measurement of business activity has advanced scientifically more slowly than measurement of household activity. As a result, many of our limitations in understanding the complexities of entrepreneurship stem from a basic lack of data – something the Kauffman Foundation is working to change.