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OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Program
A new tool to empower research-based decision-making on government policies involving entrepreneurship has been developed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with funding and cooperation from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
On the Road to an Entrepreneurial Economy: A Research and Policy Guide
On the Road to an Entrepreneurial Economy is a working paper aimed at educating policymakers about what's needed to ensure America's entrepreneurial economy continues to grow.
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-growth companies. More recently, however, venture capital returns have stagnated and declined, with the industry having seen little recovery since its go-go days of the late 1990s.
Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform
Rules for Growth is a comprehensive and groundbreaking volume of essays prescribing a new set of growth-promoting policies for policymakers, legal scholars, economists, and business men and women.
Solomon's Knot
Solomon's Knot, by Robert D. Cooter and Hans-Bernd Schäfer, is part of the Kauffman Foundation Book Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Authors Cooter and Schäfer propose a legal theory of economic growth that details how effective property, contract, and business laws help to unite capital and ideas.
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The Kauffman Foundation addresses challenges and opportunities in financing new and young companies at its fourth annual State of Entrepreneurship Address at the National Press Club in Washington.
In The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't, the well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation.