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Energizing an Ecosystem: Brewing 1 Million Cups

In what some might consider an ironic twist, technology seems to play a lesser role in building a local entrepreneurial community for startups than good old-fashioned face-time and word of mouth.
Kauffman/LegalZoom Startup Confidence Index

Owners of startup companies are surprisingly optimistic about 2012, according to the first Kauffman/LegalZoom Startup Confidence Index released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom.
Starting Smaller; Staying Smaller: America's Slow Leak in Job Creation

This study suggests that the country faces a fundamental employment challenge that pre-dates the recession by many years: A long-term trend that the researchers call a slow jobs "leak."
The Grass is Indeed Greener in India and China for Returnee Entrepreneurs

High-skilled immigrant entrepreneurs from India and China are leaving the United States by the tens of thousands each year, drawn away by better economic and professional opportunities in their home countries, according to a study released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Frontier Economics: Why Entrepreneurial Capitalism is Needed Now More than Ever

Immediately following the 2008 global financial crisis, many economists and market observers hastened to declare that the era of free markets was now over. America, and the world as a whole, they said, were trending toward greater reliance on government controls.
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.
Neutralism and Entrepreneurship: The Structural Dynamics of Startups, Young Firms and Job Creation

While the extraordinary contribution of jobs from new and young firms often is treated as something unique to these firms, this study, reveals some measure of structural order behind that reality. However, the study points out that forces creating this structure are subject to change.
The Importance of Startups in Job Creation and Job Destruction

This study finds that net job growth occurs in the U.S. economy only through startup firms.
After Inception: How Enduring is Job Creation by Startups?

Startup companies, the nation's most promising source of new jobs, are critical to reducing the current 9.5 percent unemployment rate. Not only are startups responsible for net new job growth in the U.S. economy, but this study shows that the majority of the employment they generate remains as new firms age, creating a lasting impact on the economy.
Business Owners, Financial Risk, and Wealth

This study challenges the across-the-board assumption that entrepreneurs are financial risk-takers, showing that, even though business owners are more likely than non-business owners to be willing to assume above-average risk for financial gain, they generally are more conservative when it comes to saving and borrowing.

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2013 State of Entrepreneurship Address: Financing Entrepreneurial Growth
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.
The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't
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.
The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
In the book, The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, Vivek Wadhwa, a leading scholar and public voice on entrepreneurship and public policy, draws on fifty years of research and his new Kauffman Foundation report, "America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs – Then and Now," to show that growth in immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States has peaked, is stagnating, and is on the verge of decline.

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