Research

The Contributions of Immigrants to Cancer Research in America - NFAP Policy Brief 

More than 40 percent of the cancer researchers at America's top cancer institutes are immigrants, according to a Kauffman Foundation-funded National Foundation for American Policy report released today.

The Start Uprising: Eighteen Months of the Startup America Partnership 

How does a newly formed nonprofit organization tasked with helping entrepreneurs across America effectively serve startups that are in different places, in different industries and with wildly different needs? Region by region.

Entrepreneurial Community in Kansas City: From Fragmented to Collaborative? 

Kansas City has many of the attributes it needs to become an entrepreneurial hot spot: talented innovators, investors and large firms specialized in technology and life sciences. The problem is, Kansas City is not aware of those assets. Yet.

Business Dynamics Statistics Briefing: Job Creation, Worker Churning, and Wages at Young Businesses 

The pace of recovery in hiring and job creation since 2008 is stronger in newer firms — those two years old or younger — than in more established companies, according to "Job Creation, Worker Churning, and Wages at Young Businesses," a report released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Defying Gravity: High-Growth Entrepreneurs Buck the Macroeconomic Factors Challenging Other Companies 

Resilience, innovation and a unique perspective on risk taking are just three of eight critical factors that separate the very best entrepreneurs from others, according to  this Ernst & Young LLP, report.

Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity by Veteran Status 1996-2011 

With Veterans Day approaching, stories of soldiers' service and courage will abound, but until now, little has been known about their role in one of America's most important fields: entrepreneurship.

Voices of Small Business: Discussion and Policy Implications 

Potential job creators – U.S. small business owners – do not view high tax rates as the biggest barrier to their success; it's the complexity of the tax code that they find most troublesome. Other key concerns they have include overly complicated regulations and licensing requirements.

Private Equity and Entrepreneurship: An Inequitable Match 

Faced with economic challenges in the United States, we frequently hear in political discourse the virtues of entrepreneurship as a powerful paradigm for innovation and job creation. Unfortunately, despite this well-intended rhetoric, I believe we are paralyzed as a nation by our inability to enact meaningful legislative initiatives that would advance or nurture U.S. entrepreneurship.

America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Then and Now 

A new Kauffman Foundation study finds that the number of high-tech, immigrant-founded startups — a critical source of fuel for the U.S. economy — has stagnated and is on the verge of decline. "America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Then and Now" shows that the proportion of immigrant-founded companies nationwide has slipped from 25.3 percent to 24.3 percent since 2005. The drop is even more pronounced in Silicon Valley, where the percentage of immigrant-founded startups declined from 52.4 percent to 43.9 percent.

High-Growth Firms Flourish in Unexpected Locations and Industries, Kauffman Studies Show 

Certain regions of the country continuously produce innovative, high-growth companies that have transcended the economic downturn of the last few years. Surprisingly, those regions include more than the expected locales like Boston and Silicon Valley.